[thechat] Transparency of Amazon recommendations

Garrett Coakley garrett at polytechnic.co.uk
Wed Oct 30 07:29:00 CST 2002


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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. 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.

G.
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