Greg Linden reports that Google has switched the algorithm they use for YouTube’s recommendation engine from their own to a variation of Amazon’s algorithm that was designed in the late 90s ...

Why would a recommendation engine not suggest computer science classes to a female college student interested in that field of study?

So using a recommendation engine and it's algorithms has really become, to a certain extent, an art as much as a science in making sure that you are pleasing the viewers as much as possible.

Using algorithms to make purchasing suggestions is big business. Netflix reported that its recommendation engine contributes $1 billion to its bottom line every year. However, sometimes the ...

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece up today, putting YouTube’s video-recommendation engine under a microscope and trying to pull apart why the site seems to so often steer users ...

YouTube's video recommendation algorithm often violates the platform's own content policies, according to a crowdsourced investigation released today by Mozilla.

Let’s start with the idea of a recommendation engine. It’s an informal term to describe the complex algorithms that parse masses of data to make suggestions of the “if you like that, you ...

Disney is using machine learning to train the recommendation engines behind ESPN Plus to understand how viewers' tastes change throughout the day, two executives at Disney Streaming Services, the ...

The holy grail of online book selling, the reliable book recommendation engine, is still as elusive as ever and whilst some sites make a valiant effort, none hit the mark.

The algorithm looks at the kind of houses you like, hide and look at on the site and automatically tunes its recommendations in real time according to your preferences, including how much you seem ...