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How do those recommenders find out about a product in the first place? Advertising and PR is how that happens unless a person happens to be friends with the own
by briandear 2y ago
How do those recommenders find out about a product in the first place? Advertising and PR is how that happens unless a person happens to be friends with the owner.
Advertising facilitates discovery, reviews and recommendations facilitate sustained growth.
- ndriscoll 2y agoApparently the average distance between any two Facebook users is less than 5, and that distance is presumably lower when you restrict to smaller localities like a country or city, so assuming that's a good measure of social connectedness, I'd expect news to travel fast if there's something interesting to say. Somehow I doubt uBlock Origin or SponsorBlock run ads, for example, yet here we are all knowing about them, and allegedly somewhere around 1/3 of Internet users have an ad blocker.