Trying out 'Amazon Remembers'

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27 points·kirubakaran··7 comments

That is quite impressive. I wonder what will happen if you send a picture of a real dog or of an interstate sign or of, say, PG. I don't have an iPhone. Can someone try?

If it's using Mechanical Turk, then it'll be like the Kindle's NowNow service, where you'll get related info if not the exact thing.

It uses Mechanical Turk.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/amazon-proves-i.html

It's not just Mturks. From the horse's mouth "For fun, we'll also use a community of real people to find product matches on Amazon.com." @ http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&...

Am I missing something? Isn't Mechanical Turk the community of real people? Or do you think "we'll also use..." means that they're using something else? I didn't get that gist from the full quote:

"After you send us a photo, we'll store it on your Amazon Remembers list (similar to your Wish List) in the app and in your Lists at Amazon.com. For fun, we'll also use a community of real people to find product matches on Amazon.com."

You may be right that that it's mturks only for product searches.

Just so no one else has to waste time clicking through, it's just another lame April Fools joke.

Actually, I think I might have found this one funny if it hadn't been now when I'm so sick of them :p

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