Amazon recommends

by Jon Mandle on November 7, 2008

I don’t think this is exactly what Kieran had in mind when he suggested that the Amazon recommendation engine might be broadening its scope, but I just received this:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Political Liberalism (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by John Rawls have also purchased Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America by Mike Huckabee. For this reason, you might like to know that Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America will be released on November 18, 2008.

{ 6 comments }

1

Michael Drake 11.07.08 at 7:45 pm

Remind me a little of this recommendation I got from iTunes:

You own Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht.
We recommend:
Under the Iron Sea
Keane

2

will u. 11.07.08 at 8:40 pm

Surely to be followed by a recommendation of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”

3

Danny Shahar 11.07.08 at 8:55 pm

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Bill Gardner 11.08.08 at 1:45 am

It means that the Amazon recommendation engine has become sentient. And then, naturally, reached for a bong…

5

Ben Saunders 11.08.08 at 3:09 am

I once received an Amazon email to the effect of ‘customers who bought books also bought GCSE revision guides’.

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Mark Murphy 11.08.08 at 3:17 am

It’s rather simpler: surely Huckabee forms part of the overlapping consensus too.

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