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On a related note, Amazon's recommendation engine was terrifyingly excellent in 1999-2000 or so, to the point I was probably spending more on books than I shoul
by buescher 5y ago
On a related note, Amazon's recommendation engine was terrifyingly excellent in 1999-2000 or so, to the point I was probably spending more on books than I should have been at the time. It has been on a long downhill trend since some point after that, around 2000 or 2001, when it started insistently recommending me the current Harry Potter bestseller instead of things I was actually interested in.
- HarryHirsch 5y agoOne of the standard textbooks on invertebrates is Giribet's Invertebrate Tree of Life. You order that book from Amazon and get spammed with bad Kabbalah books. How does that happen, even, someone interested in hardcore zoology would be the last person to buy something about plastic religiosity. The current state of affairs is not just bad, it's infuriating, and it used to be much better!
- bombcar 5y ago"Tree of Life" is obviously what it is going off of, as that's a term outside of invertebrates. Clearly whatever "artificial stupidity" they have running doesn't really care about matching that well. I bet https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tree+of+life&i=stripbooks https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tree+of+life&i=stripbooks is basically what you get.
- duskwuff 5y agoThose recommendations are being triggered by the phrase "Tree of Life": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah)
- PaulKeeble 5y agoSame, their recommendation engine was incredible and it helped me find so many books I loved. I don't bother with the recommendations today its full of garbage. I have really noticed how bad the search has become in the past 6 months as well, its very hard to find what you are looking for on Amazon, many products listed don't contain the keywords you listed at all.