{"id":825,"date":"2021-08-04T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2021-08-07T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:39:46","slug":"amazons-recommendations-are-so-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s recommendations are amazingly lame! And Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing I like better than getting a recommendation for something I just bought. Happens all the time with Amazon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-04-at-10.04.46-AM1-e1628097328415.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-04-at-10.04.46-AM1-e1628097328415.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-08-04 at 10.04.46 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simple logic:<\/p>\n<pre>IF bought recently, THEN omit from recommendations<\/pre>\n<p>If the AMZN recommender had a double-digit IQ, it would recognize that I buy this hand lotion periodically and send me a link when it estimates I will run out again. Same kinf od simple logic as above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-04-at-10.06.00-AM-e1628097141852.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-04-at-10.06.00-AM-e1628097141852.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-08-04 at 10.06.00 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"754\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Stars are meaningless<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.30.04-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-834\" src=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.30.04-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-08-07 at 9.30.04 AM\" width=\"704\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.30.04-AM.png 704w, https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.30.04-AM-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.27.00-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-835\" src=\"http:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.27.00-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-08-07 at 9.27.00 AM\" width=\"778\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.27.00-AM.png 778w, https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-07-at-9.27.00-AM-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing I like better than getting a recommendation for something I just bought. Happens all the time with Amazon Simple logic: IF bought recently, THEN omit from recommendations If the AMZN recommender had a double-digit IQ, it would recognize that I buy this hand lotion periodically and send me a link when it estimates I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recommendationinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}