How does amazon generate profit from askville?

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Product Awareness, Customer Service When we answer a question here, we are able to attach a product that might help the asker. They can then easily purchase the product, or at least be more aware of what Amazon has to offer and might take a look at the website. I personally have purchased a product that I never knew about before in the process of answering questions here!

I didn't even know that I "needed" the product till I was told about it here. In web sales, getting the customer to the site is the first step in a sale. So with all of us nice, friendly and helpful answerers here, the public is getting a good impression (usually!) of Amazon itself, which will help build it as a popular site to shop.

Advertising There are the contextual adds that show up on the right hand side of the screen and also the products that you can attach to any answer. But for the most part, I think Askville is an experiment. If it gets insanely popular (like MySpace) the profit should materialize..

In most cases, the answer is no. They provide these services or features as a complement to their business models or to better enable their customers. While I don't work for Amazon, I suspect a service such as Askville further cements the sense of community they want to foster and probably supports some of the technology underpinnings they want to promote.

Links It looks like Amazon is adding Links that are based on the words within the question and answers to generate some revenue. They also have the product links that people can add which would help direct people to Amazon so you buy the product from them. With that this is still in Beta and I'm sure they will find other ways to help fund this site.

Sources: My opinion .

It brings people to their site more traffic is always better. And, very often an amazon product is an answer to a question.

" "Let's start the for profit Askville band! " "Have you purchased more things from Amazon because of Askville?......" " Amazon 'Askville' or whoever?" "FYI: AMAZON/ASKVILLE" "Will Askville succeed as an Amazon venture? " "Who do you think Amazon is trying to compete with by introducing Askville?

Have you purchased more things from Amazon because of Askville?......

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