Amazon.com's Engine Suffers

Amazon.com's product search engine appeared to malfunction early
Tuesday, with searches for well-known books and CDs producing no
results.

At approximately 2:30 a.m. ET, searches for "Stephen King" and other
terms on Amazon.com's bookstore returned the message, "Your search did
not match any products."

Comments by users on the Twitter microblogging service suggested the
apparent outage may have begun around 2:00 a.m. ET, with users noting
the Amazon.com search engine was not functioning properly.

The outage did not last long. By approximately 2:40 a.m. ET, the
search engine was back to normal. This time, a search for "Stephen
King" turned up more than 22,000 results in Amazon.com's book store.