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I did this a long time ago, almost the exact same thing, but I actually parsed trending topics and searched Amazon for ANY product, not just books, based on the content of the trending topic. I started out with books, but moved on to all products. It was a cool project and netted me some cash but not worth carrying on so I dumped it about a year ago.

Was actually incredibly easy to do. I'm sure there are loads more out there.

hoopOP

Very cool. I hadn't thought of seeding the recommendations with trending topics. What kind of conversion rate did you get?

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