A Microsoft incubation project focused on building a machine-learning-powered recommendation service is staffing up and taking steps toward going commercial.



From All About Microsoft:

The Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Engineering team in Israel is building what it has codenamed "Project Sage." The job post describes Sage as a "Generic recommendation as a service solution that enables customers to use state of the art recommendation engine in a very easy and intuitive way."

That's it as far as official specifics as to what this recommendation service will do. I'd bet at least one potential use will be a recommendation service for publishers, similar to what Google is doing with its beta content-recommendation offering. I'd think an ad recommendation/personalization offering based on top of this is probably likely, as well.

  Microsofts Project Sage: A cloud-based recommendation service