Amazon.com's recommendation system

[fmanalyst]

So in my ongoing search for comfortable shoes, I've bought a pair of Keen mary jane shoes from Amazon.com. Apparently those shoes trigger Amazon's recommendation system in particular ways. All of a sudden, my recommendations have turned into green Mommy recommendations- environmental baby products and so on. That one purchase triggered a

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[lautreamontg]

Mine are a mixture of body building equipment, books on wine, Ukulele instructional DVDs, and Russian, French and Japanese Lit.

So obviously I'm a muscle-head who plays an ukulele while singing about drinking and reading symbolist literature.

Also, I suspect I am the only person in America who has both The Situation's abs book and Pasternak on their recommend page.

[duikermeisie]

Mine deal with equestrian things, engineering, and (bizarrely) fertility treatments. Number one and two are dead-on. The only "fertility treatment" I'm interested in is getting my tubes tied.