Amazon.com's Many Bots Feud Over Book-prices
joseph harris <[email protected]>
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[The best explanation yet for the complaints of the past few months from
small publishers.]
Amazon.com's Many Bots Feud Over Book-prices
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What happens when the cadre of competing bots that infest Amazon's
sales-database began to viciously fight with one another
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-39103
'...So with “Turing Test†we have a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read....'
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