How do e-commerce sites do those "people who bought this also bought this .." selections for cross-selling? I have been doing this with a lot of work on the categories in my databases, so that when someone selects one item, they are shown several other (randomly selected) items in the same category.
Is that the best way to do it? I guess a vast site like Amazon has enough traffic to very quickly assemble enough transactions that they can actually HAVE a 'people who bought this also bought that' because for even very new items, its highly likely that someone will have bought it. But what about lesser sites where new items might not make sales for a day or two? How do they assemble this information? Is it in the categorising? Product keywords? A random select? -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
