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The Fine Art Of Recommending Books

Posted at 5:36PM Thursday 22 Jul 2010

Amazon and other online merchants have harnessed mighty algorithms to run their "If you enjoyed that, you might like this..." suggestion engines, but these are still crude instruments.

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