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Re:Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads... by nicola_alessi on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:53PM (#43402455)
we want to move in this direction: - offer subscriptions for merchants and earn percentages on sales by implementing a direct checkout (but the fact that lumigo forms a partnership with brand X is not an indicator that the algorithm will be calibrated to suggest that product first..we want to maintain the absence of bias of any kind) - sell some advertising space only around the search results that will not affect the user experience in any way or at most the related products suggested after a search - create pro subscriptions for much more advanced features on products search - offer a small part of our functionality via API to implement some aspects of this technology outside our ecosystem as well

and these are just some of the ideas we have in mind, but they make it clear that if I search for X the algorithm will return exactly X without any influence whether today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow...

Re:Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads... by nradov on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @02:55PM (#43403353)
Sounds good. It will be interesting to see if you stick to that when you're running out of cash and a brand offers to pay more for preferred placement.