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02-21-2018, 12:41 PM
An Amazon HQ2 clue? Strange web traffic hints at interest in this one county
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The county board members of Arlington, Virginia might be doing a happy dance right about now, because it looks like Amazon is researching the shortlisted "Northern Virginia" area as a possible location for its second headquarters, HQ2.
Thanks to some seriously top-notch sleuthing from local news source ARLnow.com, the outlet figured out (https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/20/amazon-employees-are-very-interested-in-a-particular-article-about-arlington/) that one of its articles was receiving an unusually high amount of traffic from an internal page featured on Amazon.com — one that is not visible to the public.
The article Amazon employees were viewing? A December 2017 article about Arlington's environmental building accolades. The piece, entitled "County Wins Top Environmental Award from U.S. Green Building Council (https://www.arlnow.com/2017/12/20/county-wins-top-environmental-award-from-u-s-green-building-council/)," received over 6,000 page views and 3,500 unique visitors who were referred from an Amazon web page that cannot be reached normal public. The page is presumably only available to Amazon employees through an intranet. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/20/amazon-hq2-arlington-virginia-traffic/)
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The county board members of Arlington, Virginia might be doing a happy dance right about now, because it looks like Amazon is researching the shortlisted "Northern Virginia" area as a possible location for its second headquarters, HQ2.
Thanks to some seriously top-notch sleuthing from local news source ARLnow.com, the outlet figured out (https://www.arlnow.com/2018/02/20/amazon-employees-are-very-interested-in-a-particular-article-about-arlington/) that one of its articles was receiving an unusually high amount of traffic from an internal page featured on Amazon.com — one that is not visible to the public.
The article Amazon employees were viewing? A December 2017 article about Arlington's environmental building accolades. The piece, entitled "County Wins Top Environmental Award from U.S. Green Building Council (https://www.arlnow.com/2017/12/20/county-wins-top-environmental-award-from-u-s-green-building-council/)," received over 6,000 page views and 3,500 unique visitors who were referred from an Amazon web page that cannot be reached normal public. The page is presumably only available to Amazon employees through an intranet. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/20/amazon-hq2-arlington-virginia-traffic/)
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