Inference & Profiling · Company practice
Ancestry runs recommender systems that filter content and suggest records
Ancestry operates recommender systems that filter Ancestry, Newspapers.com and user content to enhance the user experience and suggest content that may be relevant to you. Ancestry Hints suggests records that may relate to individuals a user has included in their family tree and lets the user choose whether to save a record to the tree. Search on Newspapers.com and Ancestry lets a user search across record collections. Newspapers.com may provide content based on your references and interactions.
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2.3 Recommender Systems
Ancestry operates certain recommender systems, that filter Ancestry, Newspapers.com, and user content to enhance your user experience and suggest content that may be relevant to you.
Ancestry Hints operates to suggest records that may relate to individuals a user has included in their Ancestry family tree and allows a user the option to save this record to their family tree.
Newspapers.com may provide you content based on your references and interactions.
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- The text does not describe which data feeds the recommendations beyond “references and interactions” on Newspapers.com.