Comments on: Ranking Amazon’s Rank http://hughmcguire.net/2009/04/13/ranking-amazons-rank/ publishing, technology, media, philosophy, a bit of politics. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Daniel Haran http://hughmcguire.net/2009/04/13/ranking-amazons-rank/comment-page-1/#comment-8268 Daniel Haran Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:03:57 +0000 http://hughmcguire.net/2009/04/13/ranking-amazons-rank/#comment-8268 I've a write-up on my blog: http://www.danielharan.com/2009/04/13/amazons-epic-easter-public-relations-failure/ Short story: it's probably a troll, helped by a security vulnerability, trusting systems and a bumbling PR response. Amazon's not evil, just incompetent. If they would remove the "feature" of excluding “adult” material from searches and best seller lists, this whole problem would be fixed. To not fix it will allow less detectable attacks on specific authors and publishers. I’ve a write-up on my blog: http://www.danielharan.com/2009/04/13/amazons-epic-easter-public-relations-failure/

Short story: it’s probably a troll, helped by a security vulnerability, trusting systems and a bumbling PR response. Amazon’s not evil, just incompetent.

If they would remove the “feature” of excluding “adult” material from searches and best seller lists, this whole problem would be fixed. To not fix it will allow less detectable attacks on specific authors and publishers.

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