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>Users could more easily get the exact flights they want

Can we stop pretending this is an issue anyone has ever had.

Well I have had the problem of "I want to find the cheapest flight that leaves during this range of dates, and returns during this range of dates, but isn't early in the morning or late at night, and includes additional fees for the luggage I need in the price comparison" and current search tools can't do that very well. I'm not very optimistic WebMCP would solve that though.

matrix.ita does this very well, and has been doing so for nearly 3 decades.

Do you mean this website? https://matrix.itasoftware.com

I dind't know about it, just checked it out for a flight I'll buy soon, and has almost no direct flights which I know exist because they're on skyscanner...

In particular, you can come up with fairly complex search expressions in the "routing". In the early days the site was implemented using Lisp.

Fairly complex? I'm telling you it's missing direct flights.

That's what everyone wants, and if everyone can easily find it, it'll be worse than getting tickets for Taylor Swift.

I'm more bothered by pretending WebMCP will actually help. More than likely we'll end up seeing dark patterns emerge like sites steering the AI to book more expensive flights and hotels from ad placement.

I want my local dm shop to offer me their product info as copyable markdown, ingredient list, and other health related information. This could be a way to automate it.

Since you didn't say what a "dm shop" is, I'll assume you mean "dungeon master shop" where you buy Dungeons and Dragons-y stuff.

Or maybe it's a "direct marketing shop", where you bring flyers to be delivered into people's mail? Yeah, that must be it.

Given that it's about food or medicine somehow, because of the mention of ingredients lists and health-related information, it's probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-drogerie_markt (usually abbreviated "dm").

(I didn't know about that either before now.)

He probably means the large German drug store chain called DM.

https://www.dm.de/

Why would you want that over a proper API with structured data?

How does my chatbot use the API if not through MCP?

Welcome to a new generation of developers (not by age) who wants unstructured word slop markdown instead of clear jsons. People's brain are turned to a mush because they no longer think in a logical way, that's the LLM's job.

@grok Is this true?

"unstructured word slop markdown"

Where's the issue? In this case there's no difference between a structured markdown and a structured JSON document for an LLM.

What's wrong with a nutrient table in markdown?

If Markdown can be used for LLMs and JSON can be used for LLMs and other purposes too, JSON is better, right?

dm?

Also, vendors in a highly competitive market tend not to want to commoditize themselves by making it too easy for buyers to compare their offerings directly.

Haha.

Im still waiting for someone to show me something that makes me go "Wow!".

Show me, dont tell me!

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