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[geekchick]

*snicker* Er, yeah... Thanks, Amazon.

Your Recommendations:
Adultery

("Adultery" is the title of a book, and it was recommended to me because I just looked at The Mistress: Histories, Myths and Interpretations of the Other Woman and they built my recommendations around that. I'm greatly amused.)

Oh, I should've gotten a screenshot, as now they tell me they're recommending the Kurosawa box set. *laugh*

Comments

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

Whatever gets you through the night, I suppose. :)

[geminigirl]

"It's all right, it's all right."

You're toast for inflicting an earworm on me....

I mean it.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

*splutter*

LOL... I needed that *)

"box set"...? Hmmm.

[geekchick]

Heehee! Of course now I feel compelled to go plug that into my rating system to see what else Amazon recommends for me. I hope sloth is up next, but I'm too lazy to go check it out. ;)

"box set"...? Hmmm.
Unfortunately it's not all his movies conveniently collected into one set,which would rock; here are the details.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Yes, a screenshot would have rocked. That's too funny. BTW, Kurosawa is pretty good...I love his film, "Dreams".

[geekchick]

"Hey look, Amazon was spot-on for once!" *giggle*

Strangely (since this is unusual for most of my Amazon recommendations) I can also trace the logic behind recommending me the Kurosawa collection, as I have "Rashomon". I'm still not sure why they keep thinking that I should want a " Porter-Cable 7529 2 HP Heavy-Duty, Electronic Variable Speed Plunge Router" though.

Amazon gets confused easily

[telnar.livejournal.com]

I recently looked through my recommendations for the first time, and some of them are a lot harder to trace than yours. For example, Amazon recommended a wide angle camera lens because I bought "From Beiruit to Jerusalem". It also thought that my purchase of "Taliban" and "SQL Server 2000 Unleashed" was reason to recommend a Toshiba e310 Pocket PC. Other choices were at least in the same medium, but seemed to have little other relationship (e.g. "Sex and the City"'s 3rd season leading to "Oceans Eleven"). In only one case, could I spot a common thread: "Bias" begetting "Slander" (Amazon decided I was a conservative, I guess).

I find these things funny also in much the same way that I got a good laugh out of the anecdote in "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" where the author has a computer plot random curves and then showed them to technical analysts for their opinions. In one case, the analyst recommended buying and asked for the name of the stock so he could purchase it right away. It's amazing the degree to which meaningless information properly presented can convince people (I assume that some people buy recommended products, or Amazon would stop doing it).

Telnar