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> Same for image search. You search for "red flower Thailand" and flowers of various other colors from various locations appear. Now, if any of these flowers a
by dr_kiszonka 3y ago
> Same for image search. You search for "red flower Thailand" and flowers of various other colors from various locations appear.
Now, if any of these flowers are next to a red dress, tapping the dress will reveal links to places you can buy it.
Google is not asleep. It has just got its priorities wrong. (Or rather, incentives in this organization seem to reward not what users like me appreciate.)
- mitthrowaway2 3y agoHuh, oddly one of the harder things for me to search for is places to buy things, unless they're very mass-market consumer goods.
- godelski 3y agoNot like Amazon doesn't have the same Google problem. Except they openly discuss how the user doesn't have a choice.
- hoseja 3y agoI would gladly pay a commission for a service where I vaguely describe a product and preference and have the best version of it delivered without having to spend hours researching and hunting for deals. Of course this immediately runs into severe perverse incentives and similar issues.