http://www.metafilter.com/tags/amazonfail Posts tagged with 'amazonfail' at MetaFilter. Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:57:08 -0800 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:57:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80791/AmazonFAIL Within the last few hours, a <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23amazonfail">trend on Twitter has emerged</a> in response to <a href="http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html">Amazon's removing the sales ranking of books they consider to have "adult content,</a>" which also keeps those books from appearing in search results. However, while seeming to unilaterally de-list any books with gay themes and characters, many books with adult heterosexual content were left untouched. Unfortunately, <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html">books included in the de-ranking </a>include classic works such as <em>Brokeback Mountain</em>, <em>The Well of Loneliness</em>, <em>Tipping the Velvet</em>, and others whose "adult" content is negligible. In response, <a href="http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/amazon-rank/">some people have started a coordinated Googlebomb </a>to bring a new definition of "<a href="http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/">Amazon Rank</a>" to the top of Google's search results. As of this writing, #amazonfail is the top trend on Twitter (possibly because some <a href="http://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1503707181">big names</a> have taken up the re-tweet cause). A Google News search for this story returns no results, indicating that it might behoove corporate PR folks to keep a closer eye on Twitter...and that someone might be having a rough Monday morning tomorrow at Amazon headquarters. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80791 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:57:08 -0800 amazon amazonfail books gay glbt TochterAusElysium