[thechat] Transparency of Amazon recommendations

[Martin Paul Burns]

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>On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:14:36 +0000 Martin Paul Burns wrote:

>> Interesting. I've just visited amazon.co.uk and taken a look at my
>> recommendations. Beside each one is a link to "Why was this
>> recommended to me?" which shows the items you've bought or rated that
>> prompted the recommendation.


>This has been on there a while.

OK, colour me 'slow'.

>About a month ago I bought my sister an
>R. Kelly (*spit* *spit*) album, and since then, interspersed between
>recommendations for my usual indie/alternative fayre and web dev books I
>get loads of MOR crap.

>Thank goodness they give you a link to improve them.

Yeah, 'exclude this from your recommendations' is a useful tool

Cheers
Martin