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December 7, 2002

Just How Personal Can You Get?

Amazon.com’s software is intended to produce that sought-after personalized shopping experience. Buyers of, say, Pat Robertson’s latest book are gently steered towards other books of a similarly “uplifting” nature.

Those ever-sharp observers at The Register recently caught this wonderful software … erm … in the act.

Posted by distler at December 7, 2002 12:21 AM

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