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Thought this was kind of interesting. Out of all the DVD's to illustrate, they choose the "Best of the Muppet Show"...
Wal-Mart DVD service makes absurd suggestions
Associations not quite sorted yet
PEOPLE WHO SIGN UP FOR Wal-Mart's DVD Rental service and buy films are being faced with a torrent of suggestions for other films they might like, but quite probably wouldn't.
One poor chap noticed that Wal-Mart has started an Amazon like association list but it needs to do a bit of work on it yet.
For example, he points out, say you use Amazon and order a "Best of the Muppets" video, the service will ask you if you're interested in other Muppet movies, Mystery Science Theatre, or Sesame Street.
Wal-Mart's associations, he says, are altogether more bizarre. Choose "Best of the Muppets" and you might well be asked if you want Taxi Driver, Out of Africa, and Nightmare on Elm Street, for example.
Presumably the software guys are still tweaking the "association" engines at Wal-Mart, while Amazon's had a little more time to get it right...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10224
Wal-Mart DVD service makes absurd suggestions
Associations not quite sorted yet
PEOPLE WHO SIGN UP FOR Wal-Mart's DVD Rental service and buy films are being faced with a torrent of suggestions for other films they might like, but quite probably wouldn't.
One poor chap noticed that Wal-Mart has started an Amazon like association list but it needs to do a bit of work on it yet.
For example, he points out, say you use Amazon and order a "Best of the Muppets" video, the service will ask you if you're interested in other Muppet movies, Mystery Science Theatre, or Sesame Street.
Wal-Mart's associations, he says, are altogether more bizarre. Choose "Best of the Muppets" and you might well be asked if you want Taxi Driver, Out of Africa, and Nightmare on Elm Street, for example.
Presumably the software guys are still tweaking the "association" engines at Wal-Mart, while Amazon's had a little more time to get it right...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10224