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When recommendations go bad: Walmart & the "Planet of the Apes" fiasco

"Turns out that the Walmart fiasco was due to human error (actually, turns out that Walmart base its recommendations on some type of manual cross-linking, not user input or collaborative filtering algorithms)."

(tags: rashmi_sinha collaborativefiltering recommendations walmart)

Posted by Gene Smith on Jan 11, 2006

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Posted by Gene Smith on Jan 11, 2006. Before this there was How much wisdom is there in Digg?. Next up is Nintendo's Virtual Console needs a designer.

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