Washington Post: “Amazon is the first app many of us think about to buy things online. But is it actually a good place to go shopping? When you search for a product on Amazon, you may not realize that most of what you see at first is advertising. Amazon is betraying your trust in its results to make an extra buck. Let me show you. [Note: Amazon was an online catalog with a proprietary search engine. It is now a slogfest through myriad adverts and down the rabbit hole exercises in ordering non-returnable and non-refundable items the user did not seek to choose.]