I know that this will sound crazy to you, Amazon.com, but any search term I put to locate a book returns The Tales of Beedle the Bard as the first hit. I’m left with two options and I’m sure it must be the first. I’m sure that The Tales of Beedle the Bard is of high interest to someone searching for, say, Octavia Butler. You wouldn’t feel the need to taint the search results for your entire site for something you’re already plastering all over your site, right? I mean you’d have to be the most incompetent promoters in the history of publishing to do that.
(I know this is mild but it’s late for me and I can’t get over how stupid it is to get reasonably angry. Would someone mind throwing out some cursing for me? I stink at doing that.)
Wow, that’s creepy. I tried all sorts of terms to see if there was any way of shaking it off, but it just got creepier and creepier as time went on. (I also hope Mrs. Dvl doesn’t see the cached search terms and wonder what the hell I was looking for). For ultimate ironic creepieness, try searching “herpes and vomit.” Yes, BtB is the first result, but check out the second hit.
It didn’t come up for me in the search results either.
What did come up (above the search results and below the search field) is a Beedle/Bard banner, but it’s fairly small and unobtrusive (and thank God, not moving or beeping or any other things those horrible pop-ups sometimes do).