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		fastball on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his fav... Yep, jinni.com did the exact same thing, and I loved it. Unfortunately, it seems like B2C just didn't work financially so they switched to an entirely B2B model to help providers with their recommendation engines and no longer have their data accessible to end-users.

cpach on June 10, 2020 [–]

It’s a shame that the economics of recommendation engines doesn’t seem to work very well in the B2C space. Good rec. engines can be very useful.

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