http://pulse2.com/2009/04/14/what-was-amazonfail/ Sat, 26 May 2012 10:12:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://pulse2.com/2009/04/14/what-was-amazonfail/#comment-26277 USPTO Awards Amazon.com With Reliable Ratings Patent Shortly After Glitch Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:46:05 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=13939#comment-26277 [...] Ironically, the Amazon.com patent for Automatic Identification of Unreliable User Ratings invention focuses on providing a feature that automatically detects product ratings from being gamed by flagging inappropriate content.  All of the gay and lesbian novels in the Amazon.com system were flagged as inappropriate content by the glitch that the hacker put together.  Once it was noticed, bloggers and Twitter users got upset and coined a term called “AmazonFAIL” in response to the situation. [...] [...] Ironically, the Amazon.com patent for Automatic Identification of Unreliable User Ratings invention focuses on providing a feature that automatically detects product ratings from being gamed by flagging inappropriate content.  All of the gay and lesbian novels in the Amazon.com system were flagged as inappropriate content by the glitch that the hacker put together.  Once it was noticed, bloggers and Twitter users got upset and coined a term called “AmazonFAIL” in response to the situation. [...]

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