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Amazon Ad Sales to Compete With Google?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-they-see-are-dollar-signs dept.

theodp writes "Today, Amazon confirmed that they are testing what some are calling 'Amazon-Sense', a paid ads program in its affiliate network that resembles Google's ad program." From the article: "The speculation about Amazon's potential AdSense clone arose from the statements made by one of the members of the e-tailer's associates program."

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  1. Wonderful by st1d · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder who's going to win the common sense patent on this, ala "one-click".
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    Not a big amazon fan anymore, in case you wondered.

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  2. Payments by hopethisnickisnottak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will they set $100 thresholds and then claim click fraud and shut your account when you're near that threshold too?

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    1. Re:Payments by quokkapox · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If they're really doing that, then why don't you document it, get some corroborating reports, and go public with it. Put up an article about this alleged practice on Wikipedia. Other people will investigate it and bring any wrongdoing to light.

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    2. Re:Payments by dustmite · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Haven't you heard? Mindless and unsubstantiated Google-bashing is currently "in".

      Gotta love mob mentality. It's fine and well when the mob's in your favour, but better hope they never turn on you.

    3. Re:Payments by dustmite · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Do you really think Google is intentionally scamming people at $100 a shot with false claims of click fraud? Why would they do this, have you checked their financial results? They're making billions in revenues and hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, so your measly $100 is nothing --- in order for such a scam to be financially worthwhile to them, they would literally have to be scamming millions of users $100 each. Somehow I doubt that's the case, as there would have been a huge uproar by now and the whole AdSense program would have collapsed.

  3. They're welcome by broothal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope it will be an international service. Google has absolutely no competition in my country, and I welcome an alternative.

  4. could be interesting by DarkClown · · Score: 2, Informative

    so i wonder how google will view this - if it's pay by the click then it will definitely be a violation of google's terms to run them on the same page as an adsense ad, but if not and is just putting up relevant product that only will yield commission as currently, then maybe google will not have a problem with it.
    hopefully amazon will make their ads more attractive than the affiliate stuff they're doing now - it is ugly and not very effective, they seem to be more interested in the amazon logo taking up a quarter of the space than actually selling product, better off building your own ad units with their stuff..

  5. google vs. amazon by wwmedia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    last month i made $1800 with google

    compare that to $45 from amazon afilliate program for last 3MONTHS!

    amazon has a long way to catch up to google

  6. Nice name by szembek · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how many hours they spend trying to come up with a name for their program before saying, ah what the hell will just use 'Amazon-Sense'.

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