“The taste of people like me” - I like spicy food and rating sites tend to skew way blander Need cohorting
All review sites (Yelp, IMDb, Amazon, etc) suffer from the same flaw: they don’t take taste into account. If someone rates everything 5 stars, their 5-star review shouldn’t mean much. The right question to answer is: “what do people with discerning taste think of this place?”
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Hard because most people don’t leave reviews.
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This is exactly what
@netflix does. They recommend things based on people who have similar interests to you. The problem is that you need to collect info from every user... It would help Yelp get more reviews if they said "review places to get better reviews for yourself" -
Netflix’s system is awful. If you watch a great bank heist movie, they will suggest an array of awful bank heist movies. When it comes to movies, most people care more about objective quality than they do about genre.
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Are you sure they don't?
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No...but whatever they’re doing is not working very well :)
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Or “people whose taste overlaps with yours.” I wish there was a website where one could rate everything and anything they like, and it would provide high quality recommendations / estimates of how you’d like anything else. I think that’s what Hunch was going after cc
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Agree that would be ideal. The problem is that most people don’t leave reviews at all.
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The bigger problem seems to be social graph. A 4.5 star book on Amazon means nothing if it wasn't recommended by someone whose reading taste I trust
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My internal reading algorithm is something like social proof (from my social graph) + intuitive interest + lindy effect + applicability to current projects. I don't know how you would extenalize that, but it would be awesome.
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