Re: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-21 Thread Jeff Langevin
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:22 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: How does Amazon do that? > >  > When you look around Amazon.com, and show an interest in >  > something, there's always a part of the page that says >  > "people who bought t

Re: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread Tero Pikala
I think they use some tool like NetP from http://www.netperceptions.com/ Tero   - Original Message -   From: Qasim Rasheed   To: CF-Talk   Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:20 PM   Subject: RE: How does Amazon do that?   I guess they have some sort of Recommendation and Referral

RE: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread Qasim Rasheed
: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How does Amazon do that? > When you look around Amazon.com, and show an interest in > something, there's always a part of the page that says > "people who bought this also bought that > .."    The solution I came up

RE: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread Tim Blair
> When you look around Amazon.com, and show an interest in > something, there's always a part of the page that says > "people who bought this also bought that > .."    The solution I came up with uses two tables - the product table (guess what that is?) and a product_link table.  The product_lin

Re: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread brobborb
ere could be a better way!   - Original Message -   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   To: CF-Talk   Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 2:12 AM   Subject: How does Amazon do that?   When you look around Amazon.com, and show an interest in something, there's   always a part of the page that says "peop

Re: How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread Maureen
I don't know exactly how Amazon does it, but I suspect they have a product to purchased product relational table, and when you select a product to view, they query the relational table for matches in the same category.  It wouldn't be difficult to do, but unless you limit the relational table to

How does Amazon do that?

2004-05-19 Thread mkear
When you look around Amazon.com, and show an interest in something, there's always a part of the page that says "people who bought this also bought that .."    How do they do that? Do they really build tables of related items dynamically from purchases?  Or do they have products categorised and j