Amazon humour

[triskellian]

Customers viewing Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac might also, apparently, be interested in Gears of War (Xbox 360)...

...Well, yes, they might, but I would not expect the association to be statistically significant.

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[eleanorb.livejournal.com]

I asked someone who usewd to work for Amazon about this once. Apparently their recommendations list is not in the least bit sophistiicated. If person A bought X and Y they will recommend a combination of X and Y to anyone who looks at one or the other, until somebody buys X and A, them they'll recommend X and A.

[triskellian]

My favourite such moment was when friend-A wrote a book of popular economics, and purchasers were offered kids' fantasy books written by friend-B and friend-C, because their mutual friends were buying all three books.