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When Purchase Recommendations Go Bad

Posted by Zonk on from the tech-just-smart-enough-to-be-dumb dept.

nixman99 writes "An article on MSNBC describes what happens when 'View Similar Products' recommendations go bad. From the article: 'The company said it was alerted to the problem early yesterday afternoon after word began spreading among bloggers. When visitors to Walmart.com requested Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series on DVD, four other movies were recommended under the heading Similar Items. Those films included Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/Assassination of MLK and Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.'"

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  1. Re:Highly suprising by shrewd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that could be viewed as racist, just warning you is all.... i mean you say the planets full of talking apes and then talk like a stereotypical african american.... it's not hard to draw a line...

  2. Re:The Eye Of The Beholder by Anonymous+Coed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't think black soldiers fighting in WWII experienced massive racism from all sides then you are the ignorant one.