What Does This Mean?
The ranking logic behind a platform's suggestions of what to watch, read, buy or follow next, in everyday talk often just called "the algorithm". Technically it is part of a recommender system and typically uses collaborative filtering, content-based filtering or a hybrid of the two.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The recommendation algorithm decided I needed forty videos about espresso machines.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia's recommender system article notes that a service's recommender system is sometimes informally called its "algorithm", and traces early work from the 1979 Grundy book recommender to the Netflix Prize (2006-2009, awarded September 21, 2009).
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