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This article seems stale - the site is working again: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/ .The link in the article is a bit deceptive: It's not to the site, it's directly to an error message.

Did someone here verify that the site ever actually down, or was this a cool publicity stunt?

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The site was definitely down a few hours go with a terse message about it breaking "terms of service".

I would guess that the site is back up because the article was posted to Hacker News. I expect someone high enough to matter at Google saw it, and reversed the shutdown.

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