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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You keep repeating this over and over as a mantra. And yet, the recommendation are in essence advertisements. It is a big sign that says: "Here, we have these for sale, they might interest you since you bought and looked at similiar items." If you fail to understand recommendations from a store that wants to sell things as advertisements, then I don't know which world you live in.
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I live in the real world. Maybe you should try to think about what is being said. The issue with Google has been in the news for a while. People got so dissatisfied with the fact that the first page of search results didn't really match the search criteria, but rather were paid placements, they started moving to other search engines.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/...claims/135824/
Yes, I do understand that recommendations are Amazon trying to sell me something, but that's not what I'm talking about. The original idea of recommendations was Amazon saying "Hey you bought a new book by John Ringo, you might like this book by David Weber". That was fine. I understand that recommendations aren't perfect. The issue is that Amazon shifted from making recommendations based on what you buy, to making recommendations based on who is paying them for priority in placement. Rather than recommend David Weber, they started recommending various indie authors because they make more money on placement service with those authors.
My current recommended authors are Christopher Nutall, Lauerence Dahners, Terry Mixon, Evan Currie, Issac Hooke, Peter Grant and Jan Allan. Hum, what do all those authors have in common? Well, it's certainly not that they are authors that I have heard of, or am likely interested in! Rather, they are all indie authors, who might be paying Amazon to pimp them.
Amazon's recommendations tend to be better in more obscure categories such as ancient history. I assume that they don't sell placement to as many authors in that category.
Try googling recommendation ad.