alt Hacker NewsBecause that's structured data and structured data is usually hidden away from users _and_ machines. Product rarely want to be honest, unless it's B2B in a very competitive market (and even then!). So, yeah, it's not that they are bad, it's that there are few good sources of information.
(Lets ignore for now that no one seems to agree to what should be the spec sheets)
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It gets worse: shopping agents are hostile adversaries to Amazon unless they're paying Amazon and they've agreed to be friendly agents. No agent that won't betray you to an Amazon pricing strategy is going to be allowed access to Amazon structured data. They might even be fed poisoned data to discredit them.
But you'll be amazed by the abundance.
An LLM can read websites, right? And turn them into structured data.
With agentic commerce protocol / unified commerce protocol open ai and gemini are trying to solve this problem.
The idea is to make structured queries using these protocols which can be used to fetch top products matching the user needs instead of just relying on semantic search.
https://developers.openai.com/commerce/specs/file-upload/pro...