RESOURCE: CAR RECOMMENDER FROM CARS.COM

http://www.cars.com/go/criteria/criteriaSearchForm.html

Car recommender search engine to help people find vehicles by providing information such as vehicle year, model, make and etc. Once vehicle recommendation is made customer gets an opportunity to rate the car using rating system of 1-5. User can also read ratings from other people.

I found some of the ratings by Consumer Review very high.

Another thing a consumer can do is to compare vehicles that might be similar in its class.
The goal is to get people to find what they like and then have the ability to find a local dealer to get quote.

I find this to be more of a content based system.

MY RECOMMENDER SYSTEM (AMAZON.COM)

FEB 21ST CLASS

Recently I've been looking at photography equipments of all sorts raning from cameras to camera accessories but no books. Up to now I've had an opportunity to rate over 135 items. I've probably rated about less than a dozen items which I've own. I've also include many photography items in my wish list in hopes of getting better recommendation.

About two weeks ago I did purchase two items from Amazon.com. After the purchase I realized I was getting better recommendations that was related to what was surfing for. I realized too that Amazon threw in a book among all things related to photography. The book however was not photography related. The book dealt with vegetrian. I felt Amazon was trying to get me interested in books as well as photography equipments.

I noticed too lately that even without signing in Amazon was throwing photography related items for me. It seems as if Amazon is making recommendation via my IP address. Overall I think Amazon is doing pretty good with their recommendations.

Out of 186 recommendations only one was something I didn't care about and that was a book on how to cook vegeterian.

AMAZON RECOMMENDER SYSTEM

This 5th week of class I made a purchase via my recommender system, AMAZON.COM.
Prior to making a purchase I had been selecting items to add to my wish list in hopes AMAZON will give me better recommendation as the semester progresses. My recent purchase was not a recommendation by Amazon. It was something I needed. I'm hoping after the purchase AMAZON will give me some good recommendation. I probably will not purchase another item for quite some time but will be interested in what AMAZON will recommend with future visits.
So far the recommendation has been about 40% correct on things I might be interested. The remaining is nothing close.

AMAZON RECOMMENDER

I continue to utilize Amazon's recommender system. After rating several items I decided to dump two items into my wishlists in hopes the recommender system will give me better recommendation. Both items were digital cameras, one of which I owned and the other I didn't. I realized the two items were not enough for Amazon to give me good recommendation. After the wish list entry I was given recommendation that was in the range but nothing I would want.

CRUISEMATE SHIP RECOMMENDATION ENGINE

http://www.cruisemates.com/articles/about/engine.cfm

A cruise ship recommendation search engine.

AMAZON RECOMMENDER SYSTEM visit #5

Was interested in buying a SPEED LIGHT FLASH for camera so logged on to Amazon and rated 45 items by entering Speed Light 600 as primary search. After the 45 ratings there were about 3 items that I had owned and I gave it a high rating for all items. Next Amazon threw out their recommendation and it was items I was interested but didn't want to buy. It was good photography related items.

WEEK 3 (Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization )

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497/1

Seems like the Netflix contest to improve Cinematch by 10% has it's issues similar to what AOL released awhile back. Full detail to come.