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No. The key difference is that iTunes owns the rights to the contest it promotes via some kind of author-distributor agreement, so all the contest is 'theirs'. Google search, on the other hand, crawls the whole web, but put results by Google Shopping on top and punishes others, that have nothing to do with Google nor gave them an explicit permission to use their content. This creates an illusion that Google Shopping products are somehow better.


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