Recommendations

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#1

I have several questions about Algolia Recommend to see if it would fit to my project:

  • It is stated in the docs “All models generate up to 30 recommendations”. Is it possible to have more than 30 recommendations and paginate the results ?

  • Is it possible to filter recommendation results within a certain radius at given coordinates ?

  • Is it possible to remove already recommended products from recommendation results ?

Thank you in advance

#2

Hi @stvm,

30 is the upper limit on recommendations right now for all models. If you can tell me more about your use case the requires more recommendations, I can pass it on to the product team.

If the _geoloc attribute is included in records, you should be able to use geo filters as queryParameters in your Recommend call. However, if you include a geo filter in your call, your results will be sorted by distance first, and then by recommendation score.

Recommend does not currently track whether or not it has previously shown a recommended product to and end user.

#3

Hi,
The goal was to implement an infinite list of recommended products from algolia. From the most relevant product to the least relevant.

#4

Recommend is designed more for targeted recommendations – either a “top ten” style trend list on the landing/category page, or specific recommendations based on what the user is currently looking at.

For infinite scroll, you could inject a ranking value into the records themselves and then just sort by that value.