Amazon ordered not to pull in customers who can’t spell ‘Birkenstock’

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Tuesday, 02 Jan 2018
2:58 AM MYT

FRANKFURT: Did you mean Birkenstock?

A German court has ordered Amazon not to lure Internet shoppers to its online marketplace when they mistakenly search for "Brikenstock", "Birkenstok", "Bierkenstock" and other variations in Google.

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