ebay's algorithm at work...

[David Hughes]

Hi,

I'm looking at ebay and see an old brochure for the E-3 and bought it for a silly price as the difference between brochures and instruction manuals always amuses.

Having bought it, ebay contact me with a few suggestions "to complement" it. One of them was the book "Darker; Fifty Shades Darker as told to... "

What can you say?

Regards, David

 

[zuikologist]

AI at work....

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

This is like amazon and their algorithms. Yes amazon, i purchased a water heater. No amazon, I'm not a water heater collector, please stop suggesting more and more water heaters, I only needed one.

 

[David Hughes]

I now imagine somewhere someone has probably bought some B&W film and then "Fifty Shades of Grey" thinking it's about film processing...

And then AI that thinks "Darker" is about photographic exposure with the Olympus E-3 is more worrying; although I guess they are lumped together as both are books. And they are talking about AI running a lot of things.

Regards, David

 

[Disappointed_Horse]

Netflix algorithms take the cake. I watched a movie about Bob Marley and for six months got recommendations to watch every video about marijuana ever made.

 

[Dante_Stella]

This is like amazon and their algorithms. Yes amazon, i purchased a water heater. No amazon, I'm not a water heater collector, please stop suggesting more and more water heaters, I only needed one.

No, I think based on your posts here that you have a hot water heater fetish....

But speaking of weird, I always find it funny when a competing product is identified as the one you might like. You know, you buy a DxO one and then it says you might want the Sony QX. Ok.

D

 

[giganova]

"Darker; Fifty Shades Darker"

They are smarter than you think and know what you like! 😀

 

[giganova]

Google is even worse: when I browse the web, my pages are full of camera advertisements, and the browser window of my wife is full of shoes! 🙄

 

[ptpdprinter]

Doesn't anyone here use an ad blocker? I do, and never see this stuff. Not that I have bought a water heater recently.

 

[Dan]

Doesn't anyone here use an ad blocker? I do, and never see this stuff. Not that I have bought a water heater recently.

I was just thinking the same thing right before reading your post. I couldn't survive the web without mine.

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

No, I think based on your posts here that you have a hot water heater fetish....

Look, I need those 19 water heaters!

 

[farlymac]

I don't mind the stupid suggestions they have (mind you, it's been tweaked to get you to buy something else, even if it wasn't related in any way to what you just bought), but when doing a search for similar items, it very rapidly goes down the rabbit hole after only a few displays.

PF

 

[Steve M.]

It's a lot worse than that, and google is as bad as it gets. Trouble is, everything is linked together now

why the internet and goodle are making us stupid/

 

[Jack Conrad]

I'm just sitting here waiting for Google to tell me where to go next.



Oh heh, I've got email...

 

[peterm1]

Yeh, I get it..........EBay's algorithm at work........everytime I search EBay for camera lenses I get suggestions for blow up rubber love dolls. Least that's what I tell my wife. 🙂

And in case she does not believe it, just like Frank Drebin from Police Squad - its a gift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzVW82FaRs

 

[David Hughes]

You mean you watched "Police Squad" too? That's the first mention of it I've seen. I thought I'd imagined it years ago as no one seemed to like it and the series ended quickly.


Regards, David