Something really really wrong with amazon.com

Alex · 06-09-2008, 11:29 AM

Not surprised something like this happens. All you can do it let them know and they'll see if something can be adjusted.

But this is the risk with all auto-recommend systems (remember the brouhaha a couple years when Wal-Mart's system was connecting Planet of the Apes to Martin Luther King topics)?

Especially when the items/topics involved are relatively niche and you don't get enough data to really support conclusions about connectedness. And especially if you are trying to use the system in a horizon-expanding way (it is easy to find the pattern in people who buy Disney books also buying other Disney books; much harder to determine if there is significance that of the 128 people who bought Disney A to Z in the last week, 3 also bought Season 3 of Battlestar Gallactica.

Moonliner · 06-09-2008, 12:13 PM

I know this bloke that's hot on dreams. I asked him about the one you quoted but all he did was babel on about a bunch of fat cows, skinny cows and some river. Made no sense at all..

BDBopper · 06-09-2008, 12:34 PM

yikes. That's awful and not realted to Disney at all. What is up with Amazon lately?

06-09-2008, 11:29 AM	#1
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Not surprised something like this happens. All you can do it let them know and they'll see if something can be adjusted. But this is the risk with all auto-recommend systems (remember the brouhaha a couple years when Wal-Mart's system was connecting Planet of the Apes to Martin Luther King topics)? Especially when the items/topics involved are relatively niche and you don't get enough data to really support conclusions about connectedness. And especially if you are trying to use the system in a horizon-expanding way (it is easy to find the pattern in people who buy Disney books also buying other Disney books; much harder to determine if there is significance that of the 128 people who bought Disney A to Z in the last week, 3 also bought Season 3 of Battlestar Gallactica.
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06-09-2008, 12:13 PM	#2
Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	I know this bloke that's hot on dreams. I asked him about the one you quoted but all he did was babel on about a bunch of fat cows, skinny cows and some river. Made no sense at all.. __________________ - Taking it one step at a time.
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06-09-2008, 12:34 PM	#3
BDBopper Not Taking Any Crap! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cleaning Up America, One Step At A Time! Posts: 1,694	yikes. That's awful and not realted to Disney at all. What is up with Amazon lately?
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