Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links 130
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An anonymous reader writes "Last month, e-commerce marketplace Amazon.com launched a relatively unnoticed new feature that brings content from Wikipedia pages to its own servers in a shadowy new project that appears to be called 'Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages.' Hosted on the Amazon.com domain, they replicate Wikipedia's content but have added links to where a book can be purchased on Amazon. Amazon representative Anya Waring told CNET when asked via e-mail, 'As of November, we have rolled out in the books category, however [it] will be expanding to new categories in 2011.' If Average Joe scrapes Wikipedia and adds affiliate links to it, Google will remove and punish the domains with duplicate pages."
Re:Amazon (Score:5, Funny)
"I said we should host Wikipedia, you idiot!"
Re:Amazon (Score:5, Funny)
In...5...4...3...2 (Score:2, Funny)
...1, May the wiki-fiddling begin....
Re:very disappointing, but perhaps inevitable (Score:5, Funny)