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Amazon, Aug 26, 1999

This new service by Amazon.Com provides highly specialized bestseller lists. They keep track of how many items they send to particular zip and postal codes, and how many orders come from each domain name. They then aggregate anonymous data and apply an algorithm that constructs bestseller lists of the items that are more popular with each specific group than with the general population.

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