{"id":976,"date":"2024-02-17T10:34:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=976"},"modified":"2024-02-17T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:37:03","slug":"amazon-recommends-my-book-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/amazon-recommends-my-book-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You have to wonder&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Amazon-ownbook-recommendation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Amazon-ownbook-recommendation.jpg 606w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Amazon-ownbook-recommendation-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Amazon-ownbook-recommendation-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; about an algorithm that recommends your own book &#8211; the book that you have written &#8211; for you to buy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How often are we told how clever are these algorithms? How they improve your online experience? Keep your children away from the stuff you wouldn&#8217;t want them to see? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/Chris-Armstrong\/author\/B07P9R562F?ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\">author page on Amazo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/Chris-Armstrong\/author\/B07P9R562F?ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n<\/a> and all of my books are linked to it. Wouldn&#8217;t you have thought that the algorithm would recognise the same name &#8211; Chris Armstrong &#8211; on both the product being recommended and the  recipient of the recommendation&#8230; and if it was still in doubt, check for an author page for confirmation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t give me much hope for algorithms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; about an algorithm that recommends your own book &#8211; the book that you have written &#8211; for you to buy! How often are we told how clever are these algorithms? How they improve your online experience? Keep your children away from the stuff you wouldn&#8217;t want them to see? I have an author page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,71],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-when-i-am-not-writing-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}