Faultline Online Reporter recently ran an article questioning if recommendation software had lost its X factor and, after a quick search of the Faultline archive, we were still bemused to discover that market frontrunner ThinkAnalytics has yet to feature in our publication so far this year. In our defense, the developer of the world’s most widely deployed recommendation engine hasn’t issued a noteworthy press release since winning a deployment at Voot back in September, so meeting ThinkAnalytics at NAB 2019 to discuss the next big thing in recommendations was of high priority last week. Just a fortnight ago, our coverage of a recommendations research project between Altice Labs and Utelly mentioned how the general slowdown in coverage might imply the…