Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically

destinyland writes "A year ago, Aaron Stanton harangued Google over his new project, a web site analyzing patterns in books to generate infallible recommendations. In March he finally finished a prototype which he showed to Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, and he's just announced that he's finally received a big contract which 'gives us a great deal of potential data to work with.' The 25-year-old's original prototype examined over 200 books, plotting 729,000 data points across 30,293 scenes — but its universe of analyzed novels is about to become much, much bigger."

Comments

Re:It already exists.

[tomhudson]

The only infallible book recommendation has existed for nearly 2000 years now.

I call bullshit. Books didn't exist 2000 years ago, you ignorant clod!

Re:I'll believe it when I see it

[3waygeek]

I am skeptical that analyzing the content of the books can lead to good recommendations, let alone "infallible".

You're obviously not Catholic.

Re:Newspeak

[smittyoneeach]

One man's joke is another /.er's pathetic little reality.