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Amazon criticized for de-ranking 'adult' books (cnet.com)
3 points by mikeyur on April 13, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



And by "adult", they mean LGBT -- straight targeted books of what would seem to be equivalent adultness have been left alone. Amazon claims a glitch in response to the twitter crowds, and you could see how this could be a glitch in a complex ML algorithm, but still, I'm filing this under things that make you say hmm...




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