30 years? E-commerce hasn't been around that long - try 5 years of optimization MAX.

FWIW OpenAI is desperately trying to monetize and they think e-commerce is a "simple" problem to solve. I mean they do need to convert their funnel without alienating their users. I assume they are going to have some big payouts for agentic purchases gone awry or leave merchants on the hook.

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butlike 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

30 years ago is 1996. Amazon had been around for 2 years (they were incorporated in 1994).

	▲	chasd00 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 30 years ago is 1996. as an aside, fall of '96 is when i started college. There was an elementary school on my drive to class where I would routinely get caught in drop-off traffic. All those kids i remember crossing the street are at least in their mid 30s now. ...I think i need to lay down and it's not even 9AM my local time.

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AStrangeMorrow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember having to describe a standard model to predict online shopping behaviors for my ML class exam in university. That was close to 10 years ago now.

Also remember a teacher telling us about that story of a company finding a woman was pregnant from her shopping behavior and pushing relevant recommendation. Prompting people around her like her dad or something to find out she was pregnant

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bigfishrunning 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So, you're proposing we've been optimizing E-Commerce since...2021? Amazon was founded in 1994. It was not the first site selling things online (but it's the most recognizable one). E-Commerce has been getting attention for a *very* long time [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_e-commerce

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jazzypants 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is a very confusing comment to me. How were people buying books from Amazon in the 90s if it wasn't e-commerce?

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