November 04, 2003

Fun with Amazon's Recommendation Engine

One of Amazon.com's neatest features is the recommendation system. Basically, they crunch together info about all of the items you've purchased (or rated or added to your wishlist) to date and try to figure out which other products you'd also like. Sometimes they end up with some wacky results. Check out this recommendation I got today.

Anyone have any good theories on this one?