Re: Explain this to me....
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:31 pm
Yeah, there is that linguist school in Monterrey, CA that has been pumping out translators. I thought there were a whole slew of them at CENTAF HQ in Florida.
[quote=anarky]The real confusing question: How come if I buy an album by Johnny Cash, Amazon starts bombarding me with e-mails that start, "As a country music fan, you might like..." followed by stuff I definitely would not like? Yet they will allow new books by authors I've bought multiple books by, albums by bands I've bought multiple albums by, etc, totally slip by until I find out about them six months later? Can't they work on their recommendation system, or at least realize that all Johnny Cash fans don't automatically love bullshit like Toby Keith or Rascal Flatts?[/quote]
Amazon's recommendation system is screwy. There is a box somewhere that you can check that says something like "don't use this item for recommendations". For a while it kept recommending all sorts of SW POTF2 and EP1 figures. I don't know why because I never bought Star Wars figures from Amazon.
[quote=anarky]The real confusing question: How come if I buy an album by Johnny Cash, Amazon starts bombarding me with e-mails that start, "As a country music fan, you might like..." followed by stuff I definitely would not like? Yet they will allow new books by authors I've bought multiple books by, albums by bands I've bought multiple albums by, etc, totally slip by until I find out about them six months later? Can't they work on their recommendation system, or at least realize that all Johnny Cash fans don't automatically love bullshit like Toby Keith or Rascal Flatts?[/quote]
Amazon's recommendation system is screwy. There is a box somewhere that you can check that says something like "don't use this item for recommendations". For a while it kept recommending all sorts of SW POTF2 and EP1 figures. I don't know why because I never bought Star Wars figures from Amazon.