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Re:Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com by foobiekr on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:18PM (#14707260)
my personal ultimate example of this was I bought a lawnmower. and then for two months, all of my amazon advertisements, the ones following me around the web, were for lawn mowers.

even a vacuum I could see some weird "yes, maybe I could buy one as a gift." but a lawnmower? no.

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Re:Two Decades of Recommender Systems at Amazon.com by arkitaip on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:40PM (#14707352)
Just for months? Amazon keeps recommending me the same 90s Radiohead albums based on stuff I bought a decade+ ago. Retargeting can be so on point these days so I don't get why Amazon's recommender systems have been horrible for years. All they have to do is to peek at my cart, which I use as a wishlist, to figure out what I'm currently interested in.
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