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08-29-2014, 05:17 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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Anyone else getting strange recommendations from Amazon?
My Amazon recommendations are becoming increasingly bizarre.
I'm at a loss to understand how they recommend the boxed set of Batman DVDs on the basis that I bought the book 'How Apollo Flew to the Moon'. More disturbingly, I was recommended 'In Plain Sight', an account of the loathsome Jimmy Savile and his eventual unmasking, on the grounds that I had purchased 'Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival'. That's about the uncontained engine failure and subsequent crash landing of the United Airlines DC-10 at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989. Have a look at your Amazon recommendations, and if there are any oddities, please share! |
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08-29-2014, 07:01 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Amazon does well, but Pandora apparently thinks I'm a middle-aged Chicano.
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08-29-2014, 07:44 AM
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Spam mail thinks I want a bigger penis.
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08-29-2014, 08:59 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Gmail has long thought I speak Portuguese.
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08-29-2014, 10:03 AM
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A rapscallion engaging in shenanigans
Join Date: Aug 2014
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Tries to sell me pasta and pasta accessories.
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08-29-2014, 10:23 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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I've just discovered two more. 'Curiouser and curiouser' said Alice.
Perhaps if I purchase 'Zombie Death-Ray Flesh Eaters 2' it will trigger a recommendation for 'Pride and Prejudice'. Stranger things have happened. |
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08-29-2014, 10:56 AM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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I can see how that would be offensive for pasta like you though. It's like slave trade or genocide or something. Selling one pasta to another. |
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08-29-2014, 11:29 AM
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A rapscallion engaging in shenanigans
Join Date: Aug 2014
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I've written letters but they won't respond.
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08-29-2014, 02:17 PM
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Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Perhaps they're bummed because they can't start a letter.
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08-29-2014, 02:22 PM
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A rapscallion engaging in shenanigans
Join Date: Aug 2014
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There's a lot of that going around.
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09-08-2014, 12:08 PM
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Professor
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Houston TX
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I'm Amazon Prime and order stuff just about every week. The other day I logged in and it suggested all kinds of dog and cat food even though I have never gotten any from Amazon or even looked at any products like that.
Funny but I also sometimes look at Vegetarian and Vegan cook books and then I get lots of recommendations for Paleo books with pictures of meat on the cover. 
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10-15-2014, 02:53 PM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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It's still happening...
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10-15-2014, 06:54 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DC
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I suspect that the weirdness of the suggestions is inversely proportional to the popularity of the "because you purchased" item. It probably lists all items that shared a shopping cart with it, weighted by frequency. A popular item is more likely to have a pattern, while a less popular item will give a grab bag of random items.
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10-15-2014, 10:18 PM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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Quote:
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07-07-2018, 07:23 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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This morning's recommendation from Amazon:
'Toilet Roll Holder Wall Mounted Bathroom Tissue Holder Anti-Rust Aluminium with Mobile Phone Storage Shelf'. You have to put your phone somewhere while you catch up with your paperwork. Look, someone had to say it. Link
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