It seems that YouTube is continuing to dilute what made the site great among so many users on the internet. In the early days of YouTube, categories used to mean something, now they are largely just a legacy feature which they haven’t removed for some reason. It’s probably because they are sentimental about it. This sentimentality does not seem to integrate well their incessant desire to obsess with putting ads into every part of the site.
Instead of putting ads everywhere, why don’t they try to focus on improving the categories.
However, it seems YouTube is destined to be flooded with tons of ads after spending years letting people upload for free and without fees on the site.
The video sharing site YouTube is way past its prime now. There are simply too many ads on there, too many fake users, too much clickbait.
The site could have been greatly improved by now but instead its all about maintaining the advertising revenue. The charm what made the site unique has been replaced with just dumping videos to get ad dollars and turning it into a more chaotic version of linear television. The quality videos or the passion behind it is getting worse and the interface experience is worse now.
YouTube has actually made the desktop version of the site worse than its mobile experience. While I understand there has been shift away from desktop viewing, sometimes I want to watch my laptop. Instead of having the same settings across devices, they have actually removed many features on the desktop version of the app. The biggest change is that they removed much of the ability to customize your playback settings on there. It is quite bare bones now.
YouTube needed competition in its early days.
Google has basically ruined the website. Just because a site gets billions of users doesn’t make it great. Sometimes the smallest website has the biggest impact on the culture in ways that are not yet seen.
YouTube used to have a motto: “Broadcast Yourself”. Now it is just the logo, it is hardly “You” anymore in the “Tube”.
Amazon has generally been a pretty straight forward website. It is a place where you buy things or if you are a seller, sell your items on the Amazon storefront similar to eBay. Unlike many other dotcom businesses in the 1990s, Jeff Bezos had a vision and a sustainable business model. However, this does not mean that Amazon is lying on its laurels and has been continuing to innovate in many areas.
Amazon’s Rufus is named after a dog who was in Amazon’s office in the early days. It’s function is very much like a digital golden retriever: it seeks out information about the items you want to buy on the site.
Rufus is available on desktop as well as the mobile app. On the desktop site, Rufus is located on the upper left side of the screen.
How to search with Amazon Rufus Chatbot.
To start, you need to start typing something into the Amazon search box.
When you type in something into the Amazon, Rufus will analyze it and it will provide relevant questions.
When you click on the question bubbles, Rufus will provide answers to your questions here. It combines ChatGPT with the Amazon customer review system which helps to create a unique AI.
I chose a Runic Ring to buy, the first result on the page.
When you click on the link to the product page, Amazon has now integrated Rufus into many aspects of the site.
One of the best aspects of Amazon’s AI integration is that it is holistic. Unlike the older versions of chatbots that would you see before ChatGPT, companies such as Amazon are integrating throughout the site. It is not an annoyance on the side bar; it now greatly enhances your ability to shop on Amazon and save time instead of spending it on the annoying search engine in Amazon.
Amazon’s s Rufus is much better than Google’s AI overview as it curates the Amazon customer review system in order to provide better responses.
Amazon smartly chooses to have Rufus located throughout the page for each product that you click on the site. While it may seem overbearing for some, this approach means that Amazon is not just treating like a feature that is being hidden away on the screen. In many ways, Amazon is the prefect site for such implementation of Shopping chatbots.
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