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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...