Archive for the ‘Collaborative Filtering’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Beyond Search is Suggestion
In our previous posts we discussed how the lack of personalization and lack of incentives for a review to be honest and fair, reduced the value of local search reviews by themselves. At theSUGGESTR.com we've decided to use a technique called collaborative filtering to provide ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
What's Wrong with Local Search?
The local search market has become saturated with sites that basically do the same thing. They allow users to comment on places, give them ratings, sometimes tag them and if your lucky provide additional data that is useful about a local business. While this ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
As we've been able to gather more rating data from our site, MyFriendSuggests.com we've been able to run more tests on our unique recommendation algorithm. Our algorithm uniques combines both user based and item based collaborative filtering. Our recent tweaks to the algorithm have shown improvements and ...
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