When Amazon first launched in 1995 as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company’s explosive growth and e-commerce domination.
Amazing enough, Jeff Bezos vision had geared our technology towards e-books. The website grew larger till it was the largest online retailer. Bezos’ vision has definitely been achieved in our time today. The name was chosen to relate to the largest river in the world. To me, it symbolizes the vast amount of item choices that flows into that single domain site. He definitely created that connection right there!
Earlier in class today, it was mentioned that amazon.com relied on users behaviour kind of search style. Their algorithm is influenced by what you prefer and what you like to see. They calculate accordingly to your browsing history. It was an impressive style of algorithm just like how Facebook now uses it to its full potential. Facebook