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Google can’t even detect the most obvious scam advertisements

How broken is Google’s ad ecosystem? I recently searched for “Facebook” in Chrome. The top sponsored result pointed to an epic scam advertisement: It was a convincing scam advertisement – the link was a Facebook link, but it turned out to be a redirect which launched a bogus Apple Support script (if I had been […]

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TikTok Amazon competition heats up, judging by these LinkedIn job listings

Spotted on LinkedIn: TikTok Amazon competition is heating up. That’s judging by these job listings, suggesting TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance is gunning hard for a piece of Amazon’s pie: One difference in the TikTok Amazon competition, I suppose, is the “TikTok Shop Voice of Seller” position. Amazon of course gathers metrics about everything, but

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As AI SEO spam floods the Internet, Google SERPs turn to discussion forums

A fellow Hacker News member, Jonathan Pagel, recently made an important observation: Google search engine result pages (SERPs) are now surfacing Hacker News discussions at the top of certain searches, pushing down SEO spam. This is apparently the result of the so-called “hidden gem” update Google announced last year. Here’s how Search Engine Land explains

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The truth about your Amazon “legit wholesaler” for gated brands

I see this a lot on the Amazon Seller Central forum: A new seller shows up, panicked because their Amazon FBA or FBM account was subject to a Section 3 Account Deactivation, and they don’t understand why. Experienced sellers start asking questions about the supply chain. The newbie claims it’s all a big mistake –

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Amazon MAP pricing and problems with FBA resellers using authorized distributors

Check out this story about an Amazon FBA reseller getting an account ban, despite carefully following Amazon’s own policies. This came via Amazon Seller Central forums, which points to shortcomings in Amazon’s “authorized distributor” policies and the inability of brands to establish Amazon MAP pricing. Here’s an excerpt: We are not new sellers. We purchase

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Ridley Scott demonstrates the value of storyboards

It may seem anachronistic to still be storyboarding by hand, but in the recent CBS News interview excerpted below, Director Ridley Scott shows the multifaceted benefits of storyboards (and by extension, other types of design sketches) that carry through to the bottom line. Here’s a Ridley Scott storyboard sample from his latest movie, Napoleon: Based

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