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Why the terrible top ranked books at Amazon?
Periodically I search Amazon for new programming related books I may have missed. Lately, I've noticed that books on programming when sorted by relevance have a few terrible choices right near the top. The titles of these texts aren't even grammatical (adjectives used as nouns) and the preview content reveals totally rambling confused ideas about the purported subject. These books have lots of 4 and 5 star reviews buy verified purchasers. How can this be? I've read hundreds of programming books and I can say that these apparently self published books are a total waste of money. This must be happening all over Amazon, very sad.
- aurizon 9y agoAmazon is being gamed by some sort of 'bot based authoring process, followed by a listing process, with buyers and good reviews. They will soon figure it out and adapt - then the bots adapt - and so it goes.
- _jdams 9y agoIs this something you have heard about on the news and/or Internet, or is there some truth behind this (that there are bots gaming the authoring process)? I would like to learn more about it, how its being done, etc.
- aurizon 9y agohttps://www.fastcompany.com/1810943/unmasking-digital-pirate-amazon https://www.fastcompany.com/1810943/unmasking-digital-pirate...
- aurizon 9y agoThis is an ongoing problem. Amazon fights them off, they regroup... read a few of these. https://www.google.ca/search?q=amazon+fake+reviews&oq=amazon+fake+reviews&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.9503j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.ca/search?q=amazon+fake+reviews&oq=amazon...
- toptalkedbooks 9y agoWrite book is a hard work, even a good post will spend several hours. Maybe the book is ok, but not suit you. Hope to give you some choices. You can find programing books, which are mentioned by people in stack overflow in this year. Hope you will like this. http://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/2017 http://toptalkedbooks.com/stackoverflow/2017