Ted’s cautions still apply regarding interactions per item and per user. Do not
ignore this advice.
Also doing behavioral boosting in search is very different from item-based
recommendations. Behavioral boosting will give you only a small amount of lift
vs creating a recommender. Intuitively t
Hundreds of users are going to generate a really, really tiny amount of
data (relative to the normal amounts that recommenders get to see).
The problem is that hundreds of hyper-active users who issue thousands of
queries are only going to generate a tiny amount of data per document. You
will need