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Recommendation Systems: Interview with Satnam Alag

Mon, Feb 9th, 2009 |

In a recent post, we looked at recommendation systems, briefly reviewing how Amazon and Google have implemented their own systems for recommending products and content to their users.

We had the opportunity to speak with Satnam Alag, author of the recently published Collective Intelligence in Action, about what makes for a good recommendation system, where the technology is heading, and why Netflix is finding it so hard to improve its own system.

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