Amazon has a bunch of country-specific sites – .com for the US, .co.uk for the UK, .ca for Canada, etc. What I don’t understand is why they don’t merge reviews across the domains (especially RE: books). You can literally just change the .ca or .co.uk to .com in the URL and it loads the US version … with a ton more reviews.
Doesn’t make sense.
2 Responses to Amazon Reviews leave something to be desired
dave
April 12th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Maybe they don’t for duplicate content issues?
Sol
April 12th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Ugh – that is all kinds of wrong (and I don’t mean you are wrong). Amazon should be more concerned about the end-user, not that Google will slap them around. SEO driven or not, it is a terrible end-user decision.