In the era of Internet, web is a giant source of information. The constantly growing rate of information in the web makes people confused to decide which product is relevant to them. To find relevant product in today’s era is very time consuming and tedious task. Everyday a lot of information is uploaded and retrieved from the web. The web is overloaded with information and it is very essential to cop up with this overloaded and overlooked information. Recommender systems are the solution which can help a user to get relevant information from the bulk of information. Recommender systems provide customized or personalized and non personalized recommendations to interested users. Recommender systems are in its evolution stage. Recommender systems have been evolved from first generation to third generation through second generation. First generation or Web 1.0 recommender systems deal with E-commerce, Second generation or web 2.0 recommender systems use social network and social contextual information for accurate and diverse recommendations, and Third generation recommender systems use location based information or internet of things for generating recommendations. In this paper, three generation of recommender systems and are discussed. Similarity measures and evaluation metrics are used in these generations are also discussed
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Singh, R., chuchra, K., & Rani, A. (2017). A Survey on the Generation of Recommender Systems. International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 9(3), 26–35. https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2017.03.04
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