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This cropped up as an error report:
"This listing is a potential duplicate of another listing on Amazon. We recommend that you review alternate values before requesting a change.
Submitted by you :
Brand Name: University of Nebraska Press
Amazon's catalogue :
Brand Name: Brand: University of Nebraska Press"
Anyone [Moderator Edit: removed inappropriate commentary] can see that they are, to all intents & purposes, exactly the same (apart from the duplicated 'brand'. But not [Moderator Edit: removed inappropriate commentary] who write the programs that rule our life on Amazon.
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Seller_zDUw7ekrB6OEy
I'm not sure of your point here. It is pointing out that it is potentially a duplicate which is correct as the second one has brand in the title. We are a long way from AI being able to work out subtleties like this.
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Branding is a joke when it comes to the book catalogue.
I am trying to update the title for an out of print book but SS demands I supply a publisher's URL. Slight problem as the publisher has been defunct for many years.
On a positive note, I managed to get one of those 'SOS Title Unkown' ASINs updated with the correct title and it took only three messages to SS plus a link to 'worldcat' in place of the publisher's URL (again, defunct).
I nearly fell off my chair...
Seller_iI7oY9Sw145U0
I expect that Amazon will be able to make use of the data you provide them by manually identifying those duplicates so that in future an artificial intelligence (AI) program will be able to do that automatically.
Don't forget that an AI program needs a training set and that's exactly what you're providing when you recognise these duplicates, future generations may thank you for alleviating them from such mudane work.
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Amazon bots are already doing that but unfortunately they routinely get it wrong.
While algorithms have their uses, they are not a substitute for human intelligenceI... :(
Seller_RAXEWLxQ2dbmN
Whaaat? Did it really say that?!
This is one of the few times the bogus duplicate ASIN creators come in useful - it is sometimes possible to list obscure books under a dupe when the original ASIN is blocked/gated...if you can find a matching dupe, that is.
Which in turn raises the question: 'how do these dupes get created in the first place'?
It seems to help if you live in Trurkey... :-o
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