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Overstock.com Offers $1 Million For Improved Recommendations

The online retailer is pulling a Netflix, dangling the promise of a rich reward--not to mention some serious bragging rights--to the team that increases customer purchases.READ»

Beyond Amazon: How to Make Recommendations Smarter

A former engineer at Amazon has come up with a way to speed up the process of finding better math to produce suggestions of things you actually might want to buy.READ»

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You Liked This Product. Now What?

Product recommendation is one of the most elusive--and potentially profitable--forms of merchandising online, where consumer behavior can bring in reams of data about the way people shop. But figuring out what to do with that data, ...READ»