> PS Some time ago I encouraged the IBMLINK developers to model the
> APAR/PTF search and ordering after services like Amazon. We would not
> call them PE's anymore, but would send people mail with
> recommendations like "85% of the people who applied this PTF also went
> to get this one..."   And it would not just be funny, but might
> actually be useful for searching APARs.

I'd settle for a search engine that actually used some rational criteria
about ranking results. It's not like such algorithms are unpublished, or
have never been implemented...

-- db

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