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#amazonfail Update, posted by Michael Trice

Looks like Amazon has elaborated a bit on the glitch. Also, Seattle PI has some theories from an ex-employee of Amazon about how this happened. Basically, that it was a coding area that propogated from version of Amazon throughout the system recatorgizing tens of thousands of books.

Still, it’s an important lesson about the power of search, ranking, and rating technology.

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