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April 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Amazon Rank.

‘Nuff said.

Update, 4/13: NY Times reports on the “glitch”.

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  • 1 Kathy // Apr 15, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Ok, so I had dinner tonight with a couple of friends who work at Amazon. I’m not at liberty to say what the glitch was, but it was absolutely an unintentional glitch. A combination of automated technology, unforeseen cascading affects, international cultural differences, and a stupid person. TOTALLY innocent.

    Of course, the PR decision not to share the really simple explanation may be a mistake. I suppose they’d rather be suspected of being malicious than have it known how they screwed up.