Chrome is Going To Use AI To Help You Compare Products From Across Your Tabs 41
Google wants to help ease the pain of comparison shopping across multiple tabs in Chrome with a new AI-powered tool that can summarize your tabs into one page. From a report: The tool, which Google is calling "tab compare," will use generative AI to pull product data from tabs you have open and collect it all into one table. Assuming it works and pulls accurate information, the tool seems like it could be a handy way to look at a number of different products in one unified view.
But while it's potentially useful, the tool could also take away traffic from sites that collect and compare product information -- which might be especially worrying for independent publishers that are already struggling to be seen on Google. I'm also skeptical that Google will correctly pull all of the finer details about various products into the tables it creates with tab compare. I don't always trust Google's accuracy right now! There are some limits on what tab compare can do. The tables it creates are limited to 10 items because "we've just found the column layout doesn't scale very well beyond that," Google spokesperson Joshua Cruz tells The Verge.
But while it's potentially useful, the tool could also take away traffic from sites that collect and compare product information -- which might be especially worrying for independent publishers that are already struggling to be seen on Google. I'm also skeptical that Google will correctly pull all of the finer details about various products into the tables it creates with tab compare. I don't always trust Google's accuracy right now! There are some limits on what tab compare can do. The tables it creates are limited to 10 items because "we've just found the column layout doesn't scale very well beyond that," Google spokesperson Joshua Cruz tells The Verge.
Oh good (Score:1)
Another layer of shit on top of trying to buy something from scammers and link farms
Re: Oh good (Score:3)
I don't want Google scanning any damned tabs I have opened, or even knowing the links. Same for Microsoft.
compare products open on different tabs ? (Score:4, Funny)
I don't even use it to post on slashdot,even right now I'm using a potato and a colander to type this message.
Since i'm comparing products I don't care enough to investigate the details my self, I'll let the online data harvesting overlords do it for me, then I can be sure to pick the 'right' (overlord approved) product.
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How long (Score:4, Insightful)
How long before we find out that some entities were able to pay to have the "AI" search results tilted in their favor?
So! (Score:2)
No. Google's motto is "Do no evil"! (Score:2)
Desparately seeking use case,,, (Score:5, Interesting)
Glad I use firefox.
Use case == Chromebook (Score:2)
It's long been understood that Microsoft incorporates (or, at least, used to incorporate) a lot of 'phone home' behavior directly in the MS-Windows OS. They built it straight into the network stack, IIRC. Nothing new under the sun here.
With that said, even installing FF on Chromebook and making it the default doesn't do any good, FF runs in a sandbox under the Chrome OS. I used to use Orbot until they took the Android subsystem away. Now, I use the TOR browser running in the Linux subsystem (when I nee
Make up your mind why it's bad. (Score:2)
Wow, that flipped from "This will put publishers out of business" to "I don't think it'll do a good job and there are limitations" real fast. It's fine to not want this but "it's too good, and also it's too bad" doesn't make a ton of sense.
Porn (Score:2)
Going to be interesting when you're shopping for something and it includes those three tabs with porno sites open.
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Even better if that gets reported back to the sites so the next time you innocently visit Amazon you get unexpected recommendations "based on products you viewed elsewhere"
No. (Score:4)
I don't want this.
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That's called "using a cloud service" and doesn't even require AI.
It's covered in the TOS: SUAII. (Score:2)
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I don't want this.
So, don't use it.
I can't even click on Google results now (Score:1)
My filters block most of the tracking stuff, so anything that comes up on a google search is unclickable. And I don't care. Fuck the internet, it is dead.
Leaking data (Score:3)
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This feature is third-party cookies on steroids. I don't want data between tabs leaking (but then I don't use Chrome in the first place).
How does this leak data "between tabs"? It seems like it's a one-way flow from the tabs you select to the comparison tab, which isn't a leak because you told it to do that.
Great.... (Score:2)
So, we will no longer have to type "product 1 vs product 2" into the google search box? Sign me up!!.
Is there a way to turn it off?
Re:Great.... (Score:4, Funny)
Is there a way to turn it off?
In Capitalist America, Google feature turns YOU off!
That, sir, is poetry. (Score:2)
Advertisers' wet dream (Score:3)
Looks like they think that people use browsers exclusively for shopping. "Hey, I need to open 20 tabs because I can't decide which pair of pants to get. Google, help!" Sure, it's an advertisers' wet dream but that's not what reality looks like.
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Looks like they think that people use browsers exclusively for shopping.
Or, more likely, that they think that people sometimes use browsers for shopping.
Yet another reason (Score:2)
The fortunate thing about Google saying they weren't going to support Win7 anymore is that all this crap doesn't apply to me on most computers. All these "features" only apply to versions supported by Win10/11/whatever.
What "pain"? (Score:2)
Sound like they still have not found any real application for "AI". I guess if this is all they have, than all those investments will be lost.
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I think taking fast food orders makes some sense, even if it does suck for the people its putting out of work.
Limited data set that it needs to be able to interpret, might even allow people to order in other languages, etc.
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Possibly. May even bring a few million back of those countless billions invested. Of curse, for society as a whole it will be a loss.
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I think taking fast food orders makes some sense, even if it does suck for the people its putting out of work.
Limited data set that it needs to be able to interpret, might even allow people to order in other languages, etc.
I've been messing about with voice recognition since Dragon Naturally Speaking a quarter century ago. It's like self-driving cars. The first 90% is easy, the next 5% is hard, and it gets asymptotically harder from there. Both fast food and cars have a "limited data set" (cars only drive on roads, roads have rules, this should be an easy problem for a computer to solve!) In a noisy environment, voice recognition still sucks. If someone is trying to order from their cars, it sucks even more. If they have an a
No, it's not (Score:3)
Chrome is Going To Use AI To Help You Compare Products From Across Your Tabs
Chrome isn't going to help me do squat. I help myself - and I do that by NOT using Chrome. Also, I don't use my browser primarily for shopping - I don't even use it all that much for shopping. So as usual, AFAIC Google can get fucked.
Serious question though - has the internet really devolved to the degree that people use it largely or primarily for shopping? Is the Web just the new Shopping Channel? Are people really going to appreciate and make use of Google's latest bit of fluff?
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To answer your question, yes - there is a small set of internet users who consider the internet nothing more than the new retail environment. Most of us recognize its true nature as a medium for the delivery of pornographic and gambling services, some of us even read it for the printed articles. Until they can synthesize ethanol on the fly, the internet will have to remain a BYOB party with shopping for a few weirdos and an overall feeling of being completely discoordinated.
That said, nobody, not even th
make it even easier (Score:1)
Amazon Alexa (Score:2)
Chrome is Going To Help You From Across Your Tabs (Score:3)
And introduce new types of security issues and spying.
So now Google == (Bing on steroids) (Score:2)
So this will break the sandbox? (Score:2)
I'm sure there's no way there will be an exploit within like days that uses this to break the sandbox between sites right?
At a minimum it'll create a nice how do I fool the a.i. game.
Google is an ad company (Score:2)
This is just an advertising company using their product to do advertising. This is why we have a choice of browsers. If you don't want to fight a constant war against data harvesting for ads, use a browser that isn't made by an advertising company.
This toooooootally won't turn into a way... (Score:2)
enshitification (Score:1)