Based on the latest beta site (no, I'm not employed by amazon:), is Ampedia the next generation of "consumer reports?

Based on the latest beta site (no, I'm not employed by amazon:), is Ampedia the next generation of "consumer reports". Searching in a new way to find reliable information - According to a new beta site, amapedia.amazon.com, "Amapedia is a community for sharing information about the products you like the most. Amapedia introduces a new way of organizing products we call?

Collaborative structured tagging?. In a nutshell, it makes it easy for you to tag products with what they are and with their most important facts, and for others to search, discover, filter, and compare products by those tags. "Pretty "wiki", but I like it, y'all!

Asked by Believer 60 months ago Similar questions: Based latest beta site employed amazon Ampedia generation consumer reports Amazon.

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Yes and no Amazon already has very comprehensive reports (ie customer reviews) for many products and many people consult these reviews even if they end up buying the product someplace other than Amazon. So I think Amapedia is a natural progression to this. So in that regard, Amapedia can become a next gen "consumer reports", or at least, a source of consumer reports since the actual term "Consumer Reports" may be trademarked by Consumers Union, publishers of the Consumer Reports magazine and website.

What I wonder though, is whether they will fold existing costumer reviews from Amazon into the Amapedia site, and if it would even be within their terms of service to do this. Or whether users would be presented with two options - regular customer reviews AND Amapedia, because that sounds like double work for the user and probably won't happen for the vast majority of people. My other concern is that unlike Consumer Reports which has built its reputation on being independent and beyond the reach of commercial interests, there are no such strictures about Amazon and indeed the anonymity of the Internet has already resulted in reviews designed to either positively or negatively influence book ratings.

You can read about this in this New York Times article from 2004 titled "Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers". The gist is that authors were writing glowing reviews of their own books using pseudonyms and also critising their competitors' books. So impartiality may be a big question of this new service.

Mind, this isn't to say that Consumer Reports is itself a shining paragon of virtue as it has erred on testing in the past, including the most recent gaffe regarding child safety seats last month. Despite all this, user generated reviews will continue to become an important source of information for decision making by consumers and Amazon, as one of the premier online retailers is superbly positioned to become a leader in this field, if it can manage to weed out, or at least minimise fraudulent reviews.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.