Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 4, 2010 @05:33AM from the seems-like-a-cool-idea-to-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, e-commerce marketplace Amazon.com launched a relatively unnoticed new feature that brings content from Wikipedia pages to its own servers in a shadowy new project that appears to be called 'Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages.' Hosted on the Amazon.com domain, they replicate Wikipedia's content but have added links to where a book can be purchased on Amazon. Amazon representative Anya Waring told CNET when asked via e-mail, 'As of November, we have rolled out in the books category, however [it] will be expanding to new categories in 2011.' If Average Joe scrapes Wikipedia and adds affiliate links to it, Google will remove and punish the domains with duplicate pages."

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Re:Amazon by pushing-robot · 2010-12-04 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

"I said we should host Wikipedia, you idiot!"

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Re:Amazon by TheRaven64 · 2010-12-04 06:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Wikileaks was going to publish the fact that Amazon is a pediaphile.

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In...5...4...3...2 by s0litaire · 2010-12-04 07:01 · Score: 1, Funny

...1, May the wiki-fiddling begin....

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Re:very disappointing, but perhaps inevitable by larry+bagina · 2010-12-04 07:38 · Score: 5, Funny

citation

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