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> impartial consistent system for shopping > for a lower price Catalog is impartial, chatbot is ads pretending as advice.
by throwaway290 7mo ago
> impartial consistent system for shopping
> for a lower price
Catalog is impartial, chatbot is ads pretending as advice.
- TeMPOraL 7mo agoCatalog is an ad, the SKU database behind the catalog is impartial (at least as much as it gets), but no one is giving you access to that.
- danlitt 7mo agoI do agree with your conclusion, but the catalog in most online shops is certainly not impartial. Amazon sells the entire first page of search placement, for example.
- throwaway290 7mo agoBut we know it and it's obvious.
- recursive 7mo agoWithin a few years people will be accustomed to the idea of AI chatbots selling them stuff and it will be obvious then too. The first time paid placements appeared in a catalog, it was probably also not obvious then.
- throwaway290 7mo agocatalog ads are labeled. "what's the best something I can buy?" is begging for unlabeled ads that go against your interest. if you literally cannot tell between ad and not ad, you can't skip to actual results, it's useless.
- bko 7mo agoCatalog is impartial? Then why are ~40% of every search I do on Amazon a sponsored product? There is no pure "catalog" especially with cheap crap coming out every day from no-name Chinese labels. Am I the only one that think Amazon has gotten pretty awful in the last 5 years?
- iso1631 7mo agomore like 20 years. Basically when they introduced third party sellers.
- throwaway290 7mo agoYou can skip sponsored products