New article for @Wired on Amazon's issues with health misinfo: cancer quackery misclassified as science, gameable recommendation engines, and dubious
ratings amping up antivax content. Among other things.https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-and-the-spread-of-health-misinformation/ …
Wonder how much rankings affect lifetime sales outside of mainstream fiction categories.
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i think they matter a lot for stuff like products & clothes, based on the efforts of the review fraud rings there...and in the Documentary category, too. books...not sure how much Top lists matter, though there are blog posts devoted to how to get yourself a Best Seller sticker
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sellers also seem to really want Amazon Choice labels in the product categories. (I read a couple of 'FBA hacks' message boards where people trade tips and try to reverse-engineer what'll get it)
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