This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon toward conversational agents with curated recommendations, comparisons, and easy checkout experiences.
  • lmr0x61@lemmy.mlEnglish
    104·
    2 days ago

    Exactly. You know what is frictionless?

    1. I type in “Amazon.com”(or any of a dozen different shopping platforms) in my browser
    2. I use the site’s search bar to look up the item I want
    3. I see which the suits my needs best out of the results
    4. I click “buy now”

    I’m sorry OpenAI, but there’s really no realistically better way to shop for things online.

    • doctortofu@piefed.socialEnglish
      291·
      2 days ago

      Are you using a time machibe to access Amazon in the past? Because for me the experience looks more like this:

      1. I type in “amazon.com” in my browser
      2. I use the search bar and get a bunch of sponsored results that are not what I was searching for at all and all use the same garbage photoshopped photos
      3. I scroll through pages upon pages of irrelevant dropshipped garbage offered by companies like JHUVOY, BRILGOVA and other random letters.
      4. I finally find something that looks like it’s not a cheap knockoff
      5. I add it to my shopping cart and click through offers for Amazon prime and offers for dropshipped garbage that I might want to add to my cart.
      6. I proceed to payment

      Sigh, I really miss the old internet, I truly do…