Amazon's secret 'Bend the Curve' project purges billions of product listings from the Everything Store

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Amazon's secret 'Bend the Curve' project purges billions of product listings from the Everything Store

Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIAmazon's "Bend the Curve" program removes "unproductive" listings from its online marketplace.The initiative aims to clean up inactive or poor-selling items, while still growing product selection.These moves help control cloud costs for Amazon's retail business.Call it an "Everything Store," just without the clutter.Amazon has been getting rid of billions of product listings deemed "unproductive" through a c…

As part of the actually secret project "Bend the Curve", Amazon is said to have removed around 24 billion product offers from the store. However, the big cleaning hit only certain articles – and was done for a comprehensible reason. read more on t3n.de

The aim is to host less than 50 billion product pages on Amazon to reduce server costs.

The online market place is inactive or poorly selling product offers. The number of adjusted articles concerns several billion. (Amazon, economy)

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