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I like to stop by Amazon every now and again to see what books and music and more it recommends for me. It has a huge database of books and items I’ve bought, plus years ago I spent a long time rating items for hours on end (I can be a bit weird, I know). Today I stopped by for the first time in a while and clicked on the upcoming releases recommendations. Here’s one of the ones it had for me.

Amazon recommends TFU

Yup, Amazon recommended the game I’m working on to me. I found that amusing. It was the only game recommendation, actually. I guess that’s kind of cool!

4 Responses to “Amazon recommends”

Ha, gmail recommends Civ4 to me ALL THE TIME!

June 19th, 2008

That is really really very funny.

Wonder what gave it that idea.

jernkuan
June 20th, 2008

I kept getting ads and offers for “AI Game Programming Wisdom 4″ from all over the place - including Amazon… and I am a contributor to the book.

On a related Amazonian note, like many people, I have an Associates account with links on my site. I looked at the purchases people had made through that account last winter. Mixed in among the various game dev books that people had bought off my links, I saw the following title:

“Big, Beautiful, and Pregnant: Expert Advice and Comforting Wisdom for the Expecting Plus-Size Woman”

The Sesame Street song kinda comes to mind. “Which of these things is not like the other? Which of these things just doesn’t belong?”

June 21st, 2008

Hmm, I have an Amazon Associates account as well. I know they scan the site content to put up appropriate ads (down on my site at the moment, but will return when I have time to re-do things), now I’m wondering if they feed that info back to my purchasing data! That would be… creepy.

June 21st, 2008