WTF Dept: Amazon thinks thongs go with my Digg review

AmazonLooks like we continue the weird but true posts today. I was just browsing through some of the reviews on CN to check for updates. When I clicked onto the Digg review, the Amazon affiliate box down on the left menu showed some interesting products.

The products include: Hellboy volume 2, an Adobe CS book, NY Giants Book, and a Calvin Klein thong. Wait a minute. A THONG. What in the bloody heck is a THONG doing on a content site about Web 2.0 and Social Networking?

Amazon states that the Omakase links are based on the following:

Your page will now display Omakase Links and after a short learning period, the ads will be optimized based on what the Associate has been successful with in the past; what that user has been interested in; and what the site is about.

Now, I have been an affiliate since the beginning of their program and I don't believe I have ever sold a thong. This user has never been interested in a thong (never at my size) nor have I ever looked at one on Amazon. And clearly the site has nothing to do with thongs unless somehow Digg is associated with Calvin Klein or if Jay or Kevin wear them? LOL! Anyway, just shows that matching technology is not perfected yet.

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Submitted by Darren Stuart on January 26, 2007 - 7:57pm.

Priceless

Submitted by TimMcAlpin on January 27, 2007 - 8:07am.

i still get the thong to the lower left- ain't no filtering possible here? i think this program is dull. i getr a lot of novels and books that are not related to the web...at all! worst matching ever.

Submitted by centernetworks on January 27, 2007 - 3:29pm.

Yea  - I agree - horrible - really bad.

Submitted by shaxs on January 28, 2007 - 5:27am.

Horrible.... In a fantastic, thongalicious way? Maybe...

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