{"id":269,"date":"2006-04-15T22:12:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-04-15T22:12:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T21:12:05","slug":"amazons-recommendation-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s recommendation mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">Amazon<\/a>, use it a lot, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes though, it tickles me when it&#8217;s recommendation mechanism &#8220;gets it wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like this case, when I was browsing for the latest Scott Adams Dilbert book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0740757695\/craigmurphyco-21?creative=6394&#038;camp=1406&#038;adid=02GP10B4KGPWWK7GSGCT&#038;link_code=as1\">What Would Wally Do?: A Dilbert Treasury <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, if I can buy two copies for \u00a314.35, that makes one copy worth \u00a37.17&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image268\" alt=amazon src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/amazon.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=craigmurphyco-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0740757695&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Amazon, use it a lot, etc. Sometimes though, it tickles me when it&#8217;s recommendation mechanism &#8220;gets it wrong&#8221;. Like this case, when I was browsing for the latest Scott Adams Dilbert book: What Would Wally Do?: A Dilbert Treasury Now, if I can buy two copies for \u00a314.35, that makes one copy worth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon&#8217;s recommendation mechanism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}