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Digg Recommendation Engine: Customizable

by Mike Abundo on June 30th, 2008

Most recommendation engines tell you what you want based on aggregate data from faceless users. As starkly revealed by the 09F9 incident, most Digg users are rebellious geeks who don’t care much for faceless entities telling them what they want.

That’s why the upcoming Digg recommendation engine clearly goes for transparency and customizability. Check out how you can analyze and prune the users who weigh in on your recommendations.

Most recommendation engines are designed to facilitate Zen-like discovery without thought. You could run the Digg recommendation engine that way too, but it’s nice to have the option to think and tinker. Hope to see recommendation engines on other sites provide such granular options.

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