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    AD BUSINESS A BOON FOR AMAZON BUT A TURN-OFF FOR SHOPPERS

    Nov 30, 2019 3 minutes

    Mike Maddaloni went to Amazon.com knowing exactly what he wanted to buy.

    But instead of showing him the Synology router he was searching for at the top of his results, Amazon bombarded him with ads for hard drives and routers that he didn’t want.

    Maddaloni, a web strategist in Appleton, Wisconsin, said searching on the world’s biggest shopping site had always been a good experience for him up until a month ago, when he started seeing more ads.

    “Now I have to scroll down,”he said.“It’s annoying.” Amazon has turned its online store into an advertising

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