If you ever get the feeling that web companies see you as just a walking, talking satchel of money, that’s because they do. Here’s a selection of headlines from the past year:
All the world’s a store, and all the men and women merely shoppers


- Google confirms a buy button is coming soon to mobile search results
- Facebook lets more merchants add buy buttons to their posts
- Pinterest announces buyable pins
- Microsoft’s Bing image search will now help you buy things
- Amazon has invented tiny plastic buttons for instant buying
- Twitter wants you to buy things from its dedicated product pages
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