Amazon Technologies, Inc.

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Pranav Dandekar

Srikanth Thirumalai

James G Robinson

Sameer R Rajyaguru

B Anthony Joseph

Matthew K Green

Samuel S Sonne

Anne Randolph Marshall

Vinit Kalra

Jan Klier

Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, methods and computer programs for proactive pricing. An offer to sell a product extended by a seller is maintained in a server. The offer to sell includes a plurality of asking terms and at least one selling rule authorizing a deviation from the asking terms and that is associated with the offer. A plurality of purchase offers from at least one buyer to purchase the product is maintained in the server. Each of the purchase offers specifies at least one purchase term. The purchase offers are ranked based upon a degree to which the respective purchase terms match the asking terms.

Proactive Pricing

A method for exploring similar items can include receiving a request to explore items similar to an item identified by a user and retrieving a set of similar items to output for display to the user. The similar items can be similar to the identified item, and the set of similar items can include one or more attribute values for each similar item. In addition, in response to receiving a selection of one or more of the attribute values by the user, the method can further include retrieving similar items corresponding to the user-selected attribute values. Moreover, the method can include outputting at least a subset of the similar items for display.

Attribute-based navigation of items

Techniques are described for assessing users who provide content, such as based on the provided content and/or on aspects of how/when the content is provided. In at least some situations, the users being assessed are author users who create some or all of the content that they provide, while in other situations users may provide other types of content (e.g., content that is identified and/or selected by the users, but not created by the users). Assessment of the content-providing users may be performed in various manners, such as to generate one or more user contribution scores or other user contribution ratings for some or all such users, such as to reflect a combination of multiple factors (e.g., a quantity of pieces of content provided by a user, a recency of providing some or all of the content pieces, an assessed quality of the provided content pieces, etc.).

Assessing users who provide content

A method for generating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is described. Content associated with a web page is obtained. A URL is generated based on the content of the web page. The URL includes one or more tokens. The URL is limited to a token threshold. The token threshold is defined as a maximum number of words in the URL. One or more tokens are removed from the URL. The URL is associated with the web page.

Systems and methods for generating a descriptive uniform resource locator (URL)

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