Amazon has launched a new program, called “Amazon Omakase.” What it does is not only pull contextual data from your page to find relevent products but also use behavioral data to display products the visitor looked at previously on Amazon.com.

Chris from WebsitePublisher.net who broke the story of Amazon entering the contextual ad market suspects that Omakase is what they were talking about.

I am not a member of Amazon’s affiliate program so I haven’t been able to test this out. First, I wanted to know if I could even run this on pages with Adsense. Other blog posts said it was ok, but I wanted to hear this first hand. What I heard was neither a yes or a no:

Hi Andew,

Thanks for asking about running additional ad services on your web pages. While we’re unable to comment directly on Amazon Omakase ads, in general, AdSense program policy does not permit Google ads to be published on the same page as other contextually-targeted ads.

Wow, that was informative!