The Magic of Amazon
Last night in the pub, tinyjo and others where enthusing about Amazon's prediction engine, and how spookily accurate it can be about recommending things you want or need. I agree that normally it's very good, but this morning the following arrived in my inbox:
We've noticed that customers who ordered "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2004]" have also ordered "Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition".
Personally, I wouldn't have expected the audiences for those two films to overlap by a whole lot. Sure, they're both romantic comedies (at least nominally), but beyond that they don't have a lot in common. I know I only want one of them, and it's not Love, Actually.
So, this recommendation is useless to me; but maybe it's only useless to me. Maybe everyone else who wants Eternal Sunshine actually does want the Love, Actually Special Christmas Edition. This calls, clearly, for a poll, so I ask you: is Amazon right?
Poll
We've noticed that customers who ordered "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2004]" have also ordered "Love Actually - Special Christmas Edition".
Personally, I wouldn't have expected the audiences for those two films to overlap by a whole lot. Sure, they're both romantic comedies (at least nominally), but beyond that they don't have a lot in common. I know I only want one of them, and it's not Love, Actually.
So, this recommendation is useless to me; but maybe it's only useless to me. Maybe everyone else who wants Eternal Sunshine actually does want the Love, Actually Special Christmas Edition. This calls, clearly, for a poll, so I ask you: is Amazon right?
Poll