PinPointing is useful when it gets the recommendations right, which seems to happen particularly with beauty selections, or when it recommends items based on a brand and not an idea, like a wedding, or trend.
Getting those personalized recommendations right can mean significantly higher sales.
Companies are finding that getting those personalized recommendations right -- or even close -- can mean significantly higher sales.
It's for people who want recommendations right now, "without doing a lot of work," says Kyusik Chung, Goodreads' vice president of business development.
Clinicians can provide case-specific service recommendations right at the start, rather than plugging the family into generic programs like parenting skills training or homemaker services without any evidence that such services would address the deficits in this particular family and lower the risks for the children.
For now, though, the company is focusing mostly on getting the music recommendations right.
With more than 100 brands and hundreds of thousands of products to choose from, getting recommendations right is key.
The MediaUnbound recommendation engine combines both algorithmic and human inputs to try to come up with better recommendations right from the get-go.
Cliqz users, for example, will be able to see content recommendations right in the new social sidebar in Firefox, share links across their social networks and preview Twitter commentary, all without actually going to Cliqz.
Matcha was acquired after testing numerous approaches to generating recommendations, right at the point where it had refined its algorithm such that it saw an explosion in user growth, according to our source.
One of the more interesting things Amazon is doing here is pulling in content from third parties like HBO and Netflix, so you can see those companies' recommendations right on the Fire TV homescreen.
