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I'm talking about the web, not just Amazon. Amazon's filtering is limited too. I want a universal filter with many options. And not just shops that are captured in Amazon's sphere. And my search engine should have no incentives other than providing me with good search results.

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People talk about the web being corrupted by ads, but it's important to recognize that it completely fails at informing people what products are available to solve the problems they have, at what prices, from which vendors, and how to transport them most efficiently. Instead it's like walking through an unregulated flea market full of pickpockets and everybody's asking you to sign documents.

Yeah, everyone is talking about free markets. But no one likes the idea of a transparent market.

I guess they talk about free-to-scam-you markets, not about free-to-move-and-see markets.

It's not the web that fails. It is the vendors who fail, which is their own individual fault. Any vendor who takes online sales seriously can have tremendous benefit.

Because most products are in their own ecosystem with no overarching standard way to share information. You have some standards but usually for specific niches, no product FHIR.

Just making sure every product has a unique ID would be a revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number

Google’s Froogle was a bit like this. Obviously they had to cancel it.

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