Anyone else getting strange recommendations from Amazon?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I suspect that the weirdness of the suggestions is inversely proportional to the popularity of the "because you purchased" item. It probably lists all items that shared a shopping cart with it, weighted by frequency. A popular item is more likely to have a pattern, while a less popular item will give a grab bag of random items.

Ah! A commercial version of guilt by association.