More Fun with Amazon's SIPs

Posted on: 03/27/09

Per this entry here, Amazon's algorithms sometimes offer up odd SIPS (Statistically Improbable Phrases).

In the case of Boy Toy, check out the two circled items:

Boy Toy SIP

Again, I am forced to ask: Really, Amazon? "Session transcript" and "slugging average" are statistically improbably phrases? Come on.

(Lest anyone think I'm annoyed by these, rest assured I'm not. I find them amusing, is all. It's what happens when you let a computer think. A human being wouldn't blink twice at those phrases. A computer isn't so sure about them.)

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