Amazon Fail

[zthulu]

Amazon has stripped sales rankings for hundreds of books with anything to do with homosexuality. It's so bad that the top result of a search of the word "homosexuality" now points to "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality

Comments

[volare]

one boycott, coming right up..

[runwiththestorm]

It's been announced by Amazon that it was a glitch. Please see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_en_ot/books_amazon;_ylt=AoKv1vFN6D4LwtpPImjx13BxFb8C and http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html for more information and theories.

The prevailing thought seems to be that something was done by someone unauthorized over the holiday weekend, when it couldn't be immediately fixed. Amazon is based out of Seattle and the owner isn't exactly an extreme right winger, after all.

[zthulu]

It was announced as a glitch, but it hasn't yet been corrected. I'll amend my post if/when they actually fix it.

[faekitty71]

Search "Gay" and a very different search will come up.