I was idlly browsing a.wholelottanothing.org (pretty high marks on the domain name) and found this post about a real-time, search-as-you-type amazon search.
I have been playing with amazon searches quite a bit recently, tracking down sculpture books associated with particular artists to use on the sculpture website. I have noticed that amazon doesn’t really seem to have a good search algorithm, and most especially irritating if it doesn’t find an exact match it will give you a page of something which is ‘close’ to what you were searching for. For example, I search for ‘Jonathan Loxley’ one of our brand new artists and I get results for ‘Jonathan Lesley’, irritating when it is the fourth search in a few minutes and you aren’t reading the page, you are looking directly in the position that you know the first result will be in and thus miss the part where this is explained.
hmm, guess I have to add this post to the ‘rant’ bin after that…
Anyway…to continue…I thought it might be fun to chuck my name into MyBigRiver, amazon returned ‘Hill Street Blues’ while I was typing, and settled on ‘Death Wish 3′…does amazon think I am depressed? or a crime fighter? or simply a gun toting hard-case…?
Try It Out, any unusual recommendations about your life?
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