Google Answers Now For Amazon On Transactional Queries

Jul 3, 2015 - 7:40 am 1 by
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We have covered many examples of Google Answers showing some fun and sometimes controversial answers.

Here is a new one showing how a transactional query, a search to buy something online, triggers a Google Answer box for Amazon, amongst tons of shopping ads.

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This comes up for the query [nespresso compatible capsules].

Typically Google doesn't want to show Google Answers for these types of queries and in this case, it doesn't really answer the query.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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