People who buy this, also buy that - the Amazon upsell

So for whatever reason I was on the German Amazon site. I cannot speak German and have never bought from the site. For whatever reason thereafter I was looking for Baseball bats on Amazon.de. Interestingly i've never played baseball and don't intend to, we have a wii for that.

So this fine looking baseball bat caught my eye.....




Amazon are renowned in the web world for using clever algorithms to find the best selection of other products you may be interested in. i.e. People who bought X typically also buy Y. They are actually so good that 30% of the time i've been sold - that's a great conversion for a cross sell.

Anyway. In Germany, people who typically buy the very fabulous Aluminium Baseballschlager 30' American Baseball typically buy the following items (this still hasn't been taken down by Amazon.de)....




Yup. People who buy the bat typically buy leather black gloves, a balaclava (wtf...) and what appears to be pepperspray....

Good God German people, you scary!

What would happen if Google 'stopped'?

I can't help but think i'd be seriously confused if Google's products were to disappear. Just going through my bookmarks and realised how many Google things I use on a regular - semi regular basis....very weird.

Gmail
Android Phone G1
Calendar
Analytics
Youtube
Latitude
Talk
Chrome
Adwords
Reader
Alerts
Keyword Tool
Maps
Docs
Webmaster
URL builder
Trends (for websites)
News
Insights for Search
Shopping
Picassa
Images
Adwords Editor
Blogger
Feedburner
iGoogle


OK those are the regulars! Less regular....
Local Business Centre (when needed)
Blog Search
Filter Creator
Notebook
Health
Finance
Earth
Web Optimiser
Checkout
Ad planner
Orkut



*sigh* the one I hope I get an invite for on September 30th is Google Wave!

Seriously. Could my life be any more dependent on a single brand?

06.07.09. 2.38pm. the internet has died.

One hour ago Twitter and Facebook both died. Whats scary is they are still down one hour later. Loads of Twitter fed sites are out for the count too.

The global level of productivity and output has just gone through the roof!

I guess Nostrodamus was on to something, eh.


...hmm Twitter has said it is a DoS attack.

Someone down at Topshop is taking the piss....

So I'm looking at the Topman sale and see the jeans landing page. These textured trousers seem to stand out a bit though.....

















The actual product landing page takes you to a more normal pair of trousers though...


















I wonder who chooses the pictures when updating their CMS......

I was really hoping to see those jackups available for buying :(

so i'm supposed to be average to avoid a mocking?

From Jessica Hagy's blog again - loved this one. Seriously, buy her book its really interesting!