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Definitions of collaborative filtering:

• personalisation technology that uses recommendation engines to extract trends from the behaviour of website visitors and use that information to present suggestions to searchers. Amazon.com uses collaborative filtering to recommend books on the basis of purchases by other people with apparently similar interests.
  members.optusnet.com.au/~webindexing/Webbook2Ed/glossary.htm
• A Web interactive channel through which a company can collect information about its customers by monitoring what pages are visited on its Web site and where the most time is spent.
  www.adobe.com/products/vdp/glossary.html
• this differs from Rules-based personalization in one specific but substantial way. Instead of placing site visitors into predefined classifications, the Personalization Server compares site visitors' behaviors to other site visitors’ behaviors in the database. ...
  www.cylogy.com/library/glossary.html
• Collaborative filtering (CF) is the method of making automatic predictions (filtering) about the interests of a user by collecting taste information from many users (collaborating). The underlying assumption of CF approach is that: Those who agreed in the past tend to agree again in the future. ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

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