Amazon.com sure has come a long way. I've been using their recommendation systems since they first became available, always curious to see what their algorithmic machinations might place before me for my consideration. In the past, there have been dubious, but somewhat understandable suggestions and they've always been amusing. But things started to get much more interesting once the site started to describe to you *why* it was making the recommendations that it did.

For instance, if Amazon.com recommends you this, then in a little blurb below the recommendation it might state that it was because you bought this in the same order that you bought this.

But lately it's been acting a little strange.

Read on to see the strangeness.