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Omakase hooks Dallas up

The One That's Not About Music

Published: July 25, 2006

Today while I was jacking around with our ad server, I discovered a new kind of affiliate link from Amazon:

Omakase links (beta): Automatically feature ideal products based on Amazon's unique knowledge about what works for your site, for your users and for the content of your page.

Apparently Omakase (Japanese for "leave it up to us") crawls the site and finds out what our users might be interested in, and mashes that up with whatever cookies they may have put on your computer while shopping there.

Apparently the crawl of our site has happened already, and the first ad I saw tonight yielded this unexpected June 19 DVD release from HDNet:

Salim Nourallah, Deathray Davies, Max Stalling and Spector 45 all on one DVD set. Call it Dallas music-101.

Much of the True Music series is available for purchase.

There's also one featuring the Old 97's and another with Radiant and The Burden Brothers.

Hmm... I haven't heard any of the artists promoting these. Were y'all aware they were out?

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Published: July 25, 2006

Comments

Mike Orren Staff

On another note, this new Amazon engine is really good. Now pulling up Toadies, Lisa Loeb and Collin Herring. We might actually make more than $0.42 this quarter.

2 years, 11 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

Mike Orren Staff

Hmm. Amazon should have quit indexing while they were ahead. Interstingly the early results were ridiculously spot-on, but the deeper they've indexed, the less relevant the ads.

Books on lactating? Poker? Foreign drum tomes?

2 years, 11 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

ScottChaffin Anonymous

Lactating P0ker? I think that's a fetish series out of Bulgaria, right?

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