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The overwhelmingly dominant provider of general online search is Google, which captures around 81 per cent of all general search queries in the US on desktop and 94 per cent on mobile

The move comes just about 10 days before the start of Amazon's annual Prime Day sales event announced for October 13-14.

Over one lakh local shops and kiranas have been enabled by Amazon to serve customers during the festive season.

More than 20,000 offline retailers, kiranas and local shops from 'Local Shops on Amazon' programme will participate in 'Great Indian Festival' for the first time, selling various items like daily essentials, large appliances and home décor products, a statement said

Amazon had earlier tried to play down the importance of sharing data on how the pandemic affected workers, despite criticism from current and former employees over the protection measures put in place by the e-commerce giant.

Scraping is a form of data collection that relies on unauthorised automation for the purpose of extracting data from a website or app.