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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 04:35 PM EDT |
Here in Europe it is hard to compare prizes between sites from different
country's. You have to find the shipping prizes, and if the company wants to
ship to your country at all. And every site has this information hidden in
another place.
Is that not the way most consumer aimed businesses work? Creating a situation
where it is to complex to compare. Lay out a pad for the customer that makes it
easy to buy from them and complex to search for alternatives.
I suppose the internet could be organized in that way. For the search part, from
cookies the search engine can see what results may be shown for that customer,
just like sellers would only point you to those colleagues they hope they will
point other customers back to them. Or worse, without knowing it, the potential
customer is already associated with some seller.
In that commercial environment the internet with good search possibilities is an
enemy. For the majority of sellers comparing is a negative thing, because they
would not come out as the best.
Good search is essential to the internet, and to the free market. It is nothing
to play with. Let us hope no one of the actors here is dreaming of such an
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