Re:Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com
by linkmotif on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @05:42PM
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Yep, this. I look at something and it recommends it to me for months. I buy something and same thing. It's quite obtuse. Maybe there's something to it, maybe it does a good job growing revenue, but there's noting elegant about it.
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Re:Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com
by baddox on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:18PM
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> Maybe there's something to it, maybe it does a good job growing revenue, but there's noting elegant about it.
It almost certainly does a good job growing revenue, and they almost certainly care more about revenue than about the perception of "elegance." You say that as if it's unusual or unexpected.
Re:Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com
by linkmotif on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:01PM
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> You say that as if it's unusual or unexpected.
Absolutely not :P. Hey, whatever works. But I think many people on this subthread, including me, are wondering whether something more elegant would produce more revenue.