{"id":2569,"date":"2002-12-07T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/07\/amazon-recommends-clean-underwear\/"},"modified":"2002-12-07T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2002-12-07T14:20:32","slug":"amazon-recommends-clean-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200212\/amazon-recommends-clean-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon recommends clean underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>Amazon.com wants you to be sure to have clean underwear, no matter what else you&#8217;re buying.<br \/>On Wednesday Amazon.com made the shocking admission that it doctors some of its product recommendations, which are supposedly compiled by objective software that compares each customer&#8217;s purchasing history with the histories of others who&#8217;ve made similar purchases. <br \/>For instance, the page for the DVD &#8220;Titanic&#8221; states, &#8220;Customers who bought this DVD also bought &#8216;Forrest Gump,&#8217; &#8216;Saving Private Ryan,&#8217; &#8216;Gladiator,&#8217; and &#8216;Independence Day.&#8217; &#8221; <br \/>But Amazon.com said some of the recommendations for additional products are made up. <\/font><\/cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/story\/TWB20021204S0009\">TechWeb<\/a> (via <a Href = \"http:\/\/www.netcrucible.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/04.html#a256\">Better Living Through Software<\/a>)<br \/>When a similar sort of thing happened with search engine, Google entered the fray. I wonder whether Google will come up with a &#8220;product search&#8221; too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com wants you to be sure to have clean underwear, no matter what else you&#8217;re buying.On Wednesday Amazon.com made the shocking admission that it doctors some of its product recommendations, which are supposedly compiled by objective software that compares each customer&#8217;s purchasing history with the histories of others who&#8217;ve made similar purchases. For instance, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}