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I can’t think of a website in any domain where people don’t complain about recommendations. People complain about goodreads, Netflix, amazon, etc. Even things
by Negitivefrags 6y ago
I can’t think of a website in any domain where people don’t complain about recommendations.
People complain about goodreads, Netflix, amazon, etc.
Even things like google ads whose business is ultimately showing ads for products you might like to buy, a kind of recommendation algorithm, people constantly complain about irrelevance. And they have billions of dollars on the line for making that better, not to mention a dataset that is second to none about the internet using population.
Maybe good recommendations is actually just super hard and nobody has really solved it well.
- boring_twenties 6y agoAmazon has gone down the shitter in more ways than one, but back in the day, circa 2005, I remember being downright amazed by their recommendation engine for music. Back then I would buy music on CDs. After a while I got into the habit of simply buying random stuff I've never heard of just based on their recommendation, and I don't recall a single instance when I regretted it.
- thorum 6y agoMusic recommendations seem to work OK. My Spotify discover playlists are always decent.
- brmgb 6y agoIt's hit and miss. Sometimes it's very decent. Most of the time my discover weekly playlist contains 95% of music I find plain bad.