Reddit's initial appeal was supposed to be the recommendation engine. But for me, it never got past being a version of the front page with a different decay alg

Reddit's initial appeal was supposed to be the recommendation engine. But for me, it never got past being a version of the front page with a different decay algorithm (even to the point that it included stuff I'd read and/or downvoted). So this would be a little like the Yahoo/Bing deal.