{"id":24186,"date":"2011-12-02T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T04:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/google-vs-amazon-round-x-of-y.html"},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:58:34","slug":"google-vs-amazon-round-x-of-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/google-vs-amazon-round-x-of-y.html","title":{"rendered":"Google vs Amazon, Round X of Y"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno.  I&#39;m a big fan of Google &#8212; but I&#39;m as big a fan of Amazon.  It&#39;s hard to believe that Google can aggregate as seamless and simple an experience as Amazon has crafted over the years.  I doubt they can beat on price (the Prime cost is, for me, amortized over so many purchase it hardly counts).  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I can see using Google&#39;s delivery network as a backup, in case I can&#39;t find something on Amazon.  But I don&#39;t think that&#39;s what they&#39;re aiming for. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.wsj.net%2Fvideo%2F20111201%2F120111digitsgoogle%2F120111digitsgoogle_512x288.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052970204012004577072323400561792-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMTEwNDEyWj.html'>Google Targets  Amazon on Delivery<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGoogle is in talks with major retailers and shippers to create a service that lets consumers shop for goods on the Web and receive orders within a day for a low fee, in a challenge to Amazon.com. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno. I&#39;m a big fan of Google &#8212; but I&#39;m as big a fan of Amazon. It&#39;s hard to believe that Google can aggregate as seamless and simple an experience as Amazon has crafted over the years. I doubt they can beat on price (the Prime cost is, for me, amortized over so many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/google-vs-amazon-round-x-of-y.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google vs Amazon, Round X of Y&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,28],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-moguls","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/amazon-com-threat-or-menace.html","url_meta":{"origin":24186,"position":0},"title":"Amazon.com &#8211; Threat or Menace?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Dec-11 6:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting contrarian musings on Amazon, local independent bookstores, and evolution. #ddtb Embedded Link Amazon Doesn't Care About Your Local Bookstore | Epicenter | Wired.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23757,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/amazon-is-an-astonishingly-big-company.html","url_meta":{"origin":24186,"position":1},"title":"Amazon is an astonishingly big company","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 2:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This infographic is really very cool -- if mildly scary. 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