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Friday, October 05, 2007

 

Amazon is Watching

I've been playing around with some of the new wigets that Amazon has created for it's Affiliates program. If you rest your mouse-cursor over some of the links showing up in this page you might see is floating box appear with a link to an a book that Amazon thinks is relevant to the highlighted text. It's kind of a neat (from my perspective) but it's not without flaws. I've already noticed a few "odd" selections popping up that I'm hoping I can correct with a little bit of fine tuning. The oddest one I've seen so far is the link it created for Champions Universe which leads to, instead of the book Hero Games has produced, something entitled How I Became Champion of the Universe - a kids book about wrestling. Go figure. (Even odder, it doesn't seem to pick out that actual book title for linkage)

I'l keep working with the widget to see if I can get more accurate results out of it. In the meantime, here a bunch of not quite random words just to see what pops up: Hero System, Hero Games, Champions, Fantasy Hero, Star Hero, Pulp Hero, Role-Playing Game, RPG, Superhero, Spoon!, Heroes, Dice, Cosmic Ju-Ju.


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