Most beginner recommendation projects are a dictionary lookup. You type "comedy", it returns the comedy list. That works, and it is also the reason those projects are forgettable: a dictionary can tell you what is similar, but it can never tell you what is interestingly different .
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/mbadr3227sys/i-built-a-content-recommender-as-a-graph-and-it-found-similarities-i-wasnt-looking-for-3kj7)