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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.
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It doesn't look like a traffic problem. A search does return a number of results. Searching for something that has a large number of results does paginate correctly. But the actual API request to pull the actual items in seem to be returning a 2xx response with an empty body.
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.
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.