Why won't Yahoo Answers let me link to Amazon?

Until about two weeks ago, I had no problems adding links to amazon. Like you, I find them useful to show reviews of the book. An amazon review can sometimes be useful, because it shows what ordinary people think about the book. Also, it's useful when people want free downloads of books - I can show them where to find a cheap legal copy.

For the past two weeks I have received a 999 error every time I attempt to post a link. I think Yahoo! just assumes that I'm answering the question with the link to try and sell goods.

In the past YA has had problems with spammers who misused Amazon, meanwhile they even do it by using shortened url's. It could very well be that the system is over-reacting to the spam and displays an error message where it shouldn't - during the past couple of days several users have reported the same glitch you are experiencing. One workaround: post the link as usual, just insert a blank somewhere in the url, and advise users to remove the blank when copying and pasting the url into their browser window...

Links to Amazon are not a problem. It happens all the time. What happens when you try? If you are getting an error, you may have a bad cache file not allowing it.

1. Log off YA

2. Clean internet cache files and cookies

3. Delete all temp files

4. Reboot your computer

No, that happens to me, too. I get a 999 error if I try to link to Amazon. It's annoying.