I would argue Amazon doesn't even "do search" of their own inventory.
Anecdotally, unless you're looking for something very specific (e.g. Samsung Galaxy S9 128gb) the results become worthless beyond the first handful, probably due to the scale of the inventory and volume of scammy vendors. I believe they have optimised this way; they know people Google for options and then return to Amazon when they know exactly what they want because of the price/saved cards/prime delivery. They didn't previously need to provide a discovery service and so they don't.
This move from Google could bite hard through taking away a small part of Amazon's vendor lock-in value. Perhaps the question could be: will Google provide or incentivise vendors to provide a common rapid delivery service?
Another avid Bandcamp user reporting in. Streaming isn't an option at all - there's just too much music missing, or it might be missing someday. However I maintain a very large collection of music with lots of obscure and rare music, which is very different from most listeners, which are, frankly, very well served by Spotify - for a very cheap price. Too cheap. Nobody is earning any money from streaming.
I couldn't imagine renting my music and I don't think it's a working business model for anyone but Apple, Google & Co., who can handle a loss.
I discovered them recently. The model appears to be (paraphrasing) 'give us non-exclusive world-wide rights to distribute your music freely, and we'll work on ways to monetise later'.
Of note: high-profile artists Wyclef Jean and Bonobo appear to have signed up.
But 90% of my listening time is spotify, because I no longer really keep a personal library outside of spotify.
I download files off bandcamp, and upload them to spotify
and Music-map.com (gnoosic) is amazing. I didn't think it was AI though? I thought it was just simple: if you like this, other people who liked this, liked that.
In a mature liquid market, like exist for major US equities for example, you'd go long bitcoin and short bitcoin cash. Your broker would calculate the margin ratio on the total position and so you wouldn't get a margin call just because the bitcoin cash part went up, so long as bitcoin went up even more. There'd likely be some sort of carry cost.
But bitcoin, and especially bitcoin cash, doesn't have a mature liquid market, so this really isn't possible in any sort of off the shelf way. If you wanted to put at least a few hundred million into the position maybe you could get an investment bank interested. But even then they might not want to touch bitcoin cash.
Could you clarify your second point? Would they manipulate the market in a way that is detrimental to you? Would it help that you were not their customer, but someone else's?
These collections of ui elements or kits as it is named here never made sense to me. If you designed a nice button or slider or dropdown, hell yeah, publish the css and if necessary js. But bundling everything that might be needed does not make sense to me.
It's probably flagged by people who want to save the author from himself. Seriously, he sounds like a stalker in that post and would be well advised to take it down asap.
Users flagged it. That's nearly always the answer to this perennial question.
In fact it would be flagkilled (i.e. marked [flagged] and closed to new comments) several times over, except the software doesn't do that when the thread has many comments.
It probably wasn't mods, it doesn't take a lot of users flagging an article before it falls off the front page. It's also got a fairly high comment / point ratio, which also causes it to fall faster.
It's similar with websites. As a developer, I find it easy to build things people want. My websites get millions of pageviews every month. Yet, I make less then $200 per month from Adsense. No idea how high this could get with better monetization or what the path to betterm monetization would be.
If those websites have a focus try affiliate marketing to their niche. Adsense is like throwing spaghetti at the wall - some few will stick but most will fall off.
Millions of page views? Unless you're running a photo sharing site, it seems like this should be more than $200/month. Assuming you know adsense best practices about ad placement, ad sizing, text versus image, have you talked to a consultant about options? I'm not one, just thinking if I had millions of views, that would be the next step.
Yes, Millions of pageviews. According to Google Analytics. Adsense only shows about 500k pageviews a month though. Guess the rest uses adblockers. In terms of optimizations, I tried a few placements and settings. Nothing moved the needle much.
There are some key features of template that hiding it would not accomplish, namely that the contents like scripts are guaranteed not to execute until they've been cloned/stamped.
Will Amazon strike back and expand to general search?