added by sari · updated 10mo ago
A trillion dollar opportunity
Keely Adler and added
- I suspect billions of people will be happy to receive their answers to complicated queries directly on the search results page, uninterested in where the information comes from, so long as it’s accurate enough.
But to everyone who depended even a little bit on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism... See morefrom Google’s broken link to the web
sari added
with AI search results coming to the masses, the big question on my mind is: how will publishers/businesses get distribution?
- I believe the opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on with a massive, one size fits all horizontal aggregator, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
from Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror by Sari Azout
sari added
- I believe the opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on with a massive, one size fits all horizontal aggregator, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
from Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror by Sari Azout
Jenna Guarascio added
- If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the w... See more
from Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
- While I personally wouldn’t go so far as to describe current LLMs as “a solution in search of a problem” like cryptocurrency has famously been described as, I do think the description rings true in an overall economic/business sense so far. Was there really a great crying need for new ways to cheat on academic essays? Probably not. Will chatting wi... See more
andrea added
this is a valuable perspective on how disruptive AI actually is
- For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland”. It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?”.
The evidence is ev... See morefrom Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror by Sari Azout
Luc Cheung added
Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
sari and added