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jacquesm on Feb 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How To Buy Your Way Onto The New York Times Bestse...

There are strong parallels here between the NYT bestseller list and search engine results. Both have 'SEO' like services that are used in an arms race and everybody that refuses to play the game ends up being a loser.

Super to see you succeed in spite of being unwilling to play the game.

paulgb on Feb 24, 2013 [–]

I've heard that this is commonplace in app stores as well, especially for the iPhone top apps list.

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