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Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say
An anonymous reader writes: If you go to Amazon.com right now and attempt to search for a product, no items are appearing in the search results. Attempts to submit any feedback are failing too, with no error or response of any kind on the page. This is happening regardless of browser, operating system or ISP. On Twitter, numerous people have corroborated the issue. It appears the issue began roughly 40 minutes ago. Amazon has yet to acknowledge the glitch. Interestingly, Amazon's international properties, such as Amazon India, are not facing this issue.
Correctly returning no search results!
Bernie Sanders is continuing his assault on Amazon by hacking them.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
They ran out of stock.
Confirmed here too..
...by moving to AWS and is now killing it!
I've never received relevant search results on Amazon.
and it'll be working again in 5 mins...
Maybe it's because everybody is telling everybody else to go take a look at blank results, flooding them further.
Table-ized A.I.
Must. Consume. NOW.
T's anti-Woodward twitter storm broke the Interwebs.
Yes, search is definitely down.
Any other AWS offline (assuming amazon uses their own cloud services for their web search)?
for Amazon, not news sites. The fact this makes news is quite enlightening, and not in a good way. Next we will hear about the poor third party sellers losing sales because no one can find their products.
But search results for simple keywords brings back movies ("power" brings up Power Rangers, "black" brings up Black Panther). I don't know their infrastructure architecture but maybe their product search indexes are off-line but their media properties' are okay or back up already?
Search is working just fine.
People search Amazon with Amazon's own search feature?
I can never find anything with it. I always tell Google to search Amazon to find stuff. More often than not, the same keywords on Google return relevant results that Amazon itself won't find.
The search on Amazon has been the worst of all since the beginning.... one of many example is that they don't let you sort by price unless you choose a category?
I just took a break from blocking Amazon owned IP networks and AWS instances at my router after finding my site getting slammed by nefarious bots making bogus automated queries from them. Then I came here and saw this thread.
It has been going on for awhile but has picked up a bit where I finally got fed up enough to start blocking entire AWS subnets. I am going to take a guess Amazon search is being attack by bots from their own network.
You too? Even though this is irrelevant to this article, but, same with a lot of my webservers. Many bots coming from Amazon AWS servers, more and more these days.
I actually used to program a lot of web bots over a decade ago for projects (respectful ones), and to see the shitty bots coded and used today is ridiculous.
They even leave the default Python or other libraries' user-agents in, lazy fucks. They don't throttle the requests politely with any delays either, so it's basically a minor DoS attack. I don't understand why AWS doesn't auto-detect this and at least send a notice: "Hey we noticed your instance of AWS is sending significantly high values of HTTP(S) requests to servers all over the world, are you sure you aren't using a badly coded Python script that may be pissing off half the world's webmasters?"
I see allot of that to but in this case the bots coming from AWS and Amazon networks were smart enough to use various user agents. I know this is irrelevant to but right my worst bot traffic like you describe is coming out of China recently and 1000x worse. Amazon and Alibaba were pretty far down the list of offenders but bad enough were action had to be taken.
We've come quite a ways if "website has glitch" is big news.