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Comments on: Ranking Amazon’s Rank https://hughmcguire.net/2009/04/13/ranking-amazons-rank/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Daniel Haran https://hughmcguire.net/2009/04/13/ranking-amazons-rank/comment-page-1/#comment-8268 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:03:57 +0000 https://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.

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