# Is there a website of "If you like X, you might like Y" lists?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 19, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633 "2009-04-19T17:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/1 "2009-04-19T17:20:31Z")

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The subject pretty much speaks for itself: are there sites where people can say “hey, if you liked Caramell, you might like Smile.dk” or “if you like Flash in a Pan, you might like egg custard”? It seems like it’d be simple to set up, with a little vote function (like Urban Dictionary) so that the most popular “ifs” could get boosted to the top.

Anything like this?

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**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/2 "2009-04-19T17:44:46Z")

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It’s not so simple to set up. Even in the much more restricted realm of movie preferences, it’s been hard to set up a system that consistently gives good recommendations. So much so that Netflix has set up a [prize](http://www.netflixprize.com/) for anyone who can develop a better one.

Ed

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/3 "2009-04-19T17:59:23Z")

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Pandora does this for music, and Google does it for webpages. I don’t know what category of thing the examples in your OP are, though.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/4 "2009-04-19T18:15:12Z")

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Stumble Upon? That’s kind of like that, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Philosopher)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/5 "2009-04-19T19:08:34Z")

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Youtube does it for videos and music…

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-website-of-if-you-like-x-you-might-like-y-lists/493633/6 "2009-04-19T19:28:35Z")

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Amazon does it for pretty much all consumer products.