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Is "customers who viewed this also viewed..." not good enough for you?

• thaumasiotes 8y ago
  No, buying something is a much stronger signal than viewing something. Amazon has picked exactly one low-hanging fruit for recommendations: it frequently recommends to me that I should buy an item from my wishlist. That was a good idea on Amazon's part. But it also frequently recommends books to me based on a book that I purchased, read, and left a one-star review for. That seems like a pretty obvious mistake.
  • catach 8y ago
    > But it also frequently recommends books to me based on a book that I purchased, read, and left a one-star review for. That seems like a pretty obvious mistake. The reasoning might be that the bad-review signal means that you found the book to be a low-quality instance of its type, not that you discovered that you disliked all of that type. Unless you're being recommended books by the same author, I suppose.
    • thaumasiotes 8y ago
      I am being recommended books by the same author.
• chadcmulligan 8y ago
  > Is "customers who viewed this also viewed..." not good enough for you? I don't get that either all I get is the 'Sponsored Products..' one, maybe I'm in some A/B test