Amazon gets another silly patent

from the patent-everything-under-the-sun dept

Amazon received a patent today for their recommendation engine — which is essentially a collaborative filtering system.. I think that there are a whole slew of collaborative filtering companies that are gonna be pissed at this one. Another example of the patent office handing out patents for ubiquitous things.. (like Amazon’s “1-click” purchases a few months ago).


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