Modern Retail

Amazon quietly removes editorial recommendations from search results to replace them with more ad units
For years, Amazon had a program called Onsite Associates — known internally as OSP — that worked with publishers to match top-rated products with editorialized blurbs. But at the beginning of the month, Amazon took that section of the search results and replaced it with more ad units.
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