Comments on: Should A Website Design Show Its Precious Algorithm?

By: ECOMMERCE - Bloggers Digest - 4/18/08

ECOMMERCE - Bloggers Digest - 4/18/08 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:17:55 +0000

[...] Should a Website Show Its Precious Algorithm takes a look under the hood of Amazon, Last.fm and StumbleUpon’s recommendations algorithms and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of giving users clues into how recommendations are made. [...]

By: gs

gs — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:10:02 +0000

giving examples to people who need to have an idea its no sin nor wrong

By: Bloggers Digest - 4/18/08 - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog

Bloggers Digest - 4/18/08 - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:29:39 +0000

By: Suffian

Suffian — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:32:27 +0000

Alexis, your posts are getting more and more insightful! Great stuff.

To add to the discussion, I think that it also depends on the target audience or the product’s core users and what stage the product or service is currently at.

For example, Mind Valley’s SocialRank reveals a minimum of what most people would need to know about how their blog discovery engine works. Maybe the more it becomes ‘mainstream’ Mind Valley might need to open up a bit more, although it’s entirely up to them to share the details of their algorithms.