eBay, the major online retailer whose mission is “to be the world’s favorite destination for discovering great value and unique selection,” turns its well-seasoned algorithms to wine. They’re doing it with help from Drync, the popular mobile wine app known for personalized wine recommendations and, more recently, for integrating their commerce platform with wine, beer, and spirits retailers.
Hey if it’s personalized, I’m all in.
Amazon does something like that. Based on something I must have watched, they recommended a few movies to me.
“Polski Westerns”.
WTF?
Who knew such a category existed?
Apparently in Poland they love western movies and they also make them and I’m supposed to love them. They’re sort of like the cheap version of the spaghetti westerns.
I would love to see their algorithm. It’s true I am part Polish and I have been to Poland, but how would Amazon know that because I watched some crappy Charles Bronson movie?
So maybe this wine thing is a good idea - you’ll get some off the wall weird shit that you’d never even know existed.
Am I the only one to find the company’s name (“Dry North Carolina”) for a wine app to be funny?