On And Off The Rails » Books http://www.sarutherford.com Dr Scott A. Rutherford Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:44:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Self Optimizing Links – Not!! http://www.sarutherford.com/2006/12/28/self-optimizing-links-not/ http://www.sarutherford.com/2006/12/28/self-optimizing-links-not/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:15:55 +0000 Scott http://blog.caronsoftware.com/2007/11/25/self-optimizing-links-not [...]]]> So, not sure what algorithm Amazon are using to power their self optimizing links, but it doesn’t work – the books haven’t really changed in the 35 days its been on my blog. Of course I could be the exception but it seems to me to be, well, crap.

Quite disappointing really, I would of thought it would be possible to be a lot more targeted, especially as I already have links to their site from my posts so even returning the “others have bought” books would be an order of magnitude increase in performance.

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So far I have discovered that somewhere out there is a Scott Rutherford who writes travel books about Asia, and therefore that “Japan by Rail” is more appropriate than any books actually on Rails…….. Hence the links so far are not really relevant.

Early days yet though. So, the experiment continues.

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