Essentially, are you saying 'dont give data to Google, but give to us'?
I can't see how the merchant websites own anything given that the script points to your website and everything else is a blackbox.
Just wondering...
Hey, we have various configurations available even in this very early preview: https://rover.rtrvr.ai/docs/configuration and you can turn off telemetry so we don't collect the data . As a website you can also configure to host the script on your preferred endpoint and our 'apiBase' helps with that pointing to custom domains. And based on project data needs we are also open to tighter data policy rules.
If the agent is in your site you are at much less mercy of Google's agent to:
- redirect users to another site
- the user's focus is shifted from your site to whats going on in the agentic chat (in which Google can serve ads/recommendations) outside of your control.
- we want to be long term partners to websites to craft the agentic experience between them and their users