How do Google Reader Recommendations work?
Google Reader, has a feature where it recommends new feeds. It continues to surprise me (as well as freak me out) at how good the recommendations sometimes are.
Previously, it recommended people from the local SA blogosphere, that i had been following on twitter. This morning, it recommended me the twitter stream of Umair Hague who blogs at Harvard Business Online as a discussion leader. I already follow his tweets and it’s the first time i have seen a recommendation for a twitter stream. (See the screen shot below)
A few points:
- I subscribe to his blog at harvard business online
- I subscribe to his twitter stream (On twitter and not rss)
So the question is that, has Google figured out that the discussion leader blog, is written by the same person as the twitter account and since i am a subscriber to the feed it recommended to me the tweets as well?
Or
Is it that people with similar RSS feed’s as me, are also subscribing to the RSS feed for Umair’s twitter account?
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