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My guess is that they are really bad at de-duping products. Product ids vs skus and all that jazz is historically not handled well in recommender systems, and
by nautilus12 8y ago
My guess is that they are really bad at de-duping products. Product ids vs skus and all that jazz is historically not handled well in recommender systems, and those product not recognized as variants of already purchased products end up being the closest in the "graph" to be recommended so shoot to the top.
- elliekelly 8y agoBut what really drives me nuts is textbooks. The data is practically handed to them with ISBNs. How hard could it possibly be for someone to tweak the algorithm so it doesn't suggest to me every edition of every text book I've ever purchased? Beyond the customer annoyance factor, this is a business issue. There is a virtually 0% chance that any textbook suggestion will be converted to a sale. That takes up valuable suggestion real estate on the user's screen and keeps me from seeing a suggestion that I might actually be interested in buying.
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