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It's the same as any recommendation engine: Because you've bought x, based on similar patterns from other customers you're probably likely to buy y. The fact th
by lnguyen 15y ago
It's the same as any recommendation engine: Because you've bought x, based on similar patterns from other customers you're probably likely to buy y. The fact that it's pregnancy-related makes for a good (and slightly controversial) news article.
Throwing in the additional information that exists outside their system can lead to even better and timely recommendations.
- rhizome 15y agoMy point is that deep-dive market research, let alone recommendation engines, really aren't very good (yet). Recommendation engines themselves, as a shallow version of what I'm talking about, haven't really progressed at all in the 10 or so years since Amazon et al figured out how to display the top three things that other people bought along the thing you're looking at, which isn't rocket science.