Difference between "put" and "get" [closed]

Solution 1:

In that sentence, they are pretty much interchangeable. They're both short and colloquial and immediately ignorable. That's what such verbs are for. The reasons why they both work are different, though, and are limited to this sentence. That's what's the problem with asking about individual sentences; the answers don't generalize, even though everybody wants general rules.

Put works here because it means to place in a location, and that's the metaphor used in putting offerings in front of millions of potential customers, whether it's literally true or not. It wouldn't work without the locational metaphor.

Get, on the other hand, is FAR more common than put; get means any of the following

  • come to be/become (She got tired, pregnant, running, done)
  • cause to be (He got her tired, pregnant, started running)
  • come to have (He got the clap, a sweater, no answer, just a pittance, his tires slashed)
  • cause to have (I got my car fixed)

Note that many if not most of these uses of be, have, and get are idiomatic ones. In this case, it simply means to cause the offerings to be in the position mentioned, without any details. That would work with almost anything that could be expressed by be or have, and that's most stuff.