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Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

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Re: Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

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Post by SR2Z »

skybrian wrote: post #12
JeremyBarbosa wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah and I know one issue with this is that sites like Amazon tend to have greater protections against scraping from AIs, so there is not much AI providers could do if they wanted to find the true lowest price.

I wonder if Amazon will lose enough sales to more bot-friendly vendors that they’ll notice this and do something about it?

As long as there are 200M American Prime subscribers who like two day shipping it seems unlikely.

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Post by throw_m239339 »

anonreplier wrote: post #34
throw_m239339 wrote: post #18

It's crazy how getting the best deals online is still a unsolved problem. Google product page was garbage even before AI, most aggregators are a complete farce as well, either displaying deals that are out of date or completely unrelated items, and let's not even get started with price tracking... You'd think of all the companies, Google would be the best one to come up with a good solution for deal hunting but no...…

For the UK, hotukdeals is pretty good

That site exists in my country but under a different name (the UI is exactly the same so I imagine it's the same company). It's OK, but their search engine is mediocre. You look for Smartphone deals and they show you bananas... this is the very thing that shouldn't happen on a site like that. It means that whatever algorithm they use isn't very sophisticated.

Re: Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

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Post by lennart-rth »

I wonder when dynamic pricing based on the users chat history will be a thing. The users context based of LLM conversation should be way more detailed compared to traditional cookie tracking. Also buyers manipulation could be done at some point. Pretty scary to think about

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Post by podgorniy »

lennart-rth wrote: post #45

I wonder when dynamic pricing based on the users chat history will be a thing. The users context based of LLM conversation should be way more detailed compared to traditional cookie tracking. Also buyers manipulation could be done at some point. Pretty scary to think about

this feels to be inevitable...

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Post by autoexec »

lennart-rth wrote: post #45

I wonder when dynamic pricing based on the users chat history will be a thing. The users context based of LLM conversation should be way more detailed compared to traditional cookie tracking. Also buyers manipulation could be done at some point. Pretty scary to think about

dynamic/discriminatory pricing will be based on your chat history, your search history, your location, your purchase history, and every and any other data point that can be leveraged against you. Buying something near the birthday of a loved one? Expect prices to go up. Haven't driven in two days when you usually would have and now you're looking for a car part? Expect your prices to go up. Got a new job where you make more money? Expect your prices to go up.
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