[HN Gopher] OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Go...
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OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google
Author : minimaxir
Score : 39 points
Date : 2025-04-28 19:18 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| mk89 wrote:
| It took them less than I thought.
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| We are gonna have fun with "can you suggest me a product to do
| XYZ"?
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| At least until now you could run a search to compare, etc.
| ...Imagine how biased the results can be when you ask "show the
| pro/con of each".
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| Less and less trustworthy.
| xdfgh1112 wrote:
| Google is corrupted with over half the search results being
| related to buying something. I search for regular words and it's
| interpreted as a brand or product.
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| If that happens to ChatGPT, it's useless to me.
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| I suspect the free version will tilt more in this direction until
| it becomes worse than useless. The current free offering is
| honestly too good to be true at present.
| beAbU wrote:
| Ironically, these days I only switch from ddg to google when I
| want to buy something.
| bluedevilzn wrote:
| It begins...
| m-hodges wrote:
| > The results you see in OpenAI searches are not paid placements,
| but organic results. "They are not ads," says Fry. "They are not
| sponsored."
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| We all know that won't be the case forever. But I'm also
| pessimistically interested in the modern SEO tactics of
| optimizing your product to appear in model outputs.
| kylehotchkiss wrote:
| I imagine this more as you pay ChatGPT to feature your product
| or more likely, to silently add your product to somebodies cart
| nitwit005 wrote:
| I hadn't considered SEO-like tactics. I do expect some gen-AI
| companies to let people pay to insert ads or marketing, because
| it can be as simple as tweaking a prompt. Have your art
| generator insert Pepsi Co products whenever beverage terms are
| used.
| SirMaster wrote:
| Wake me up when ChatGPT can buy me a new nvidia 50 series GPU at
| MSRP.
| Imnimo wrote:
| >The results you see in OpenAI searches are not paid placements,
| but organic results. "They are not ads," says Fry. "They are not
| sponsored."
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| What does ChatGPT use to do web searches? Is it Bing with
| sponsored results removed?
| sethhochberg wrote:
| I can certainly see the potential: both for this to be really
| useful at the start and progressively move toward the useless as
| someone figures out they can get a big bonus if they sell
| sponsorship within it.
|
| This last weekend I was using ChatGPT to help me select
| complementary neutral and trim colors for a room where I'd
| already picked out the accent wall color and other decor, because
| I got tired of wading through SEO-spam interior design blogs. I
| gave it quite a bit of detail about my general style, lighting
| conditions, even things like the various woods used in my
| flooring and furniture so it could be conscious of complementary
| undertones.
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| It would've been convenient if once I had the list from the
| conversation, I could've asked it to just order the sample paint
| chips from Benjamin Moore and have them sent to me. And by that
| point it knew quite a bit about the size and features of the
| room, maybe it could have added some requisite supplies to my
| Home Depot cart for pickup...
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| The real value is a tool that can act on all the conversational
| context in a relatively vendor agnostic way. Take my entire plan
| and use various agents to make it happen.
| caseyy wrote:
| > The results you see in OpenAI searches are not paid placements,
| but organic results.
|
| Aaaaaaand it's gone. Please step aside, this chat is for people
| who will actually buy the sponsored products. Next please!
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