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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:what exactly is so offensive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heee! You're funny.

    Europe is a continent, not a country. Come on, tell us more about Europe! Is the capital London? In Scotland, England? Or maybe Parisfrance? Who's the President of Europe? Bjork? What's our national dish? Borscht? Expound your views on the famous civil war of 1939-1945! How is our "football league" an example of anything? Except maybe of your own ignorance. Come on, enlighten us.

    Then maybe we can hear your views on the country of Africa! YAY