Demographic Based Collaborative Filtering for New Users

摘要

A system and method for generating a stream of content for a new user is described. The method includes determining one or more demographic profiles, each demographic profile being based on content provided by a content database over the computer network to a predetermined set of users that have a common demographic property, the content interacted with by the predetermined set of users, each demographic profile being associated with the common demographic property; determining a first demographic property for a new user; selecting from the one or more demographic profiles, a demographic profile based on the first demographic property of the new user; based on the selected demographic profile, creating a query to the content database; submitting the query over the computer network to the content database; and retrieving content from the content database based on the query, and providing the content to the user.