The Magic of Amazon
Nov. 12th, 2004 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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tinyjo and others where enthusing about Amazon's prediction engine, and how spookily accurate it can be about recommending things you want or need. I agree that normally it's very good, but this morning the following arrived in my inbox:
Personally, I wouldn't have expected the audiences for those two films to overlap by a whole lot. Sure, they're both romantic comedies (at least nominally), but beyond that they don't have a lot in common. I know I only want one of them, and it's not Love, Actually.
So, this recommendation is useless to me; but maybe it's only useless to me. Maybe everyone else who wants Eternal Sunshine actually does want the Love, Actually Special Christmas Edition. This calls, clearly, for a poll, so I ask you: is Amazon right?
[Poll #382436]
tinyjo and others where enthusing about Amazon's prediction engine, and how spookily accurate it can be about recommending things you want or need. I agree that normally it's very good, but this morning the following arrived in my inbox:We've noticed that customers who ordered "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2004]" have also ordered "Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition".
Personally, I wouldn't have expected the audiences for those two films to overlap by a whole lot. Sure, they're both romantic comedies (at least nominally), but beyond that they don't have a lot in common. I know I only want one of them, and it's not Love, Actually.
So, this recommendation is useless to me; but maybe it's only useless to me. Maybe everyone else who wants Eternal Sunshine actually does want the Love, Actually Special Christmas Edition. This calls, clearly, for a poll, so I ask you: is Amazon right?
[Poll #382436]
