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Inside Amazon’s massive lawsuit
Gabriel Menor
November 05, 2023
🇺🇸 Amazon vs. USA: Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states after being accused of being anticompetitive and having unfair strategies to keep their power.
🔎 The details: Amazon allegedly made search worse so that paid ads got more attention. This makes it almost impossible for quality search content to win over sponsored ones. The dirty pricing got almost $1 billion from customers.
“Many results are plainly not what the customer searched for, such as when a LA Lakers t-shirt ad showed up in a search for ‘Seahawks t-shirt’
💬 Secret messages: Executives used encrypted messaging apps like Signal to hide their conversations. Jeff Bezos allegedly knew about the move (although its unclear if he had the app)
👁️ I Spy: Amazon also used web crawlers to see if their own sellers offered lower prices on other platforms. Getting caught meant punishments like:
being ranked lower on search
being removed from the convenient “Buy Box” (80% of Amazon’s sales go through here)
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