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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. Highly suprising by novus+ordo · · Score: 0, Troll

    With an infinite amount of monkeys typing away at a typewriter for an infinite amount of time you will get...this?

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  2. Re:what exactly is so offensive? by theonlyholle · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have no idea what you're talking about regarding the football league (oh, maybe you mean Italy... I think I read something the other day). Anyway, I didn't say that Europe has no problems with racism, but I'm saying that I can't understand how anyone would see the recommendations mentioned in the original article as racist. That was my point... but I suspect you know that pretty well and just wanted to make a smart comment...