I wrote a little script that is going to hit those links 10000 times.
10 secs between hits.
using something called "curl" that isn't really a browser, but when I look at the html returned, it looks like amazon returns the same thing as a browser gets.
it's possible they check that it's a real browser that hits the links. If so, I'll cobble that up later.
funny inside joke.
when you look at the text in the html they return (which normally you never see because the text are instructions about how to render what you see and you don't see everything necessarily...)
there's a little rubber ducky text picture, saying (MEOW)
a little easter egg from whatever person at Amazon was doing part of the web page work.
i.e. it looks like this:
<script>window.ue && ue.count && ue.count('CSMLibrarySize', 54535)</script>
</div></body></html>
<!-- _
.__(.)< (MEOW)
\___)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-->
<!-- sp:eh:iFQjF2awHaDSL1X/ZiJ1wzoAmHw7MnqlHXXugs+dHXcFELalY7CvB6tyT6gQvkkH/iVUiJH11hi0a8PJkQJZzDKzlzJXArcpnf9y/gEzoTCeoLEEzaq0AOpkG44= -->
and for conspiracy buffs, right above that, a couple lines. theres this weird "dot in a pyramid" character (in comments so it actually is just there for someone's idea of fun
it makes it look like some weird Masonic or Rosicrucian symbol
Here. must be a expanded character set....it renders correctly here
/* â—¬ */
</script>
maybe that's the writer's idea of two eyes and a nose..the "/*" and "*/" are normally comment delimiters and make the characters in between not get executed as "code"
