archive.is

RelatedHighlights

Searching the internet should feel like navigating a grand library of knowledge, where you could weave insights across cultures, industries, and millenia.

Of course it doesn’t feel that way. Today, searching the internet feels more like navigating a landfill.

Exa API

Sublime added

The Future of Search

terry nguyen dirt.fyi

and added

There is little room for randomness in exploring the vast amount of information actually available to us. This is deliberate. Google and others’ stated mission is to reduce this vast complexity. Their less trumpeted goal is to profit from it, at the expense of our own potential for random encounters, and thereby for our own evolution.

James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

The Future of Search Is Boutique

Sari Azout future.com

and added

Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?

Charlie Warzel theatlantic.com

and added

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 more

Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror

Luc Cheung added

archive.is

added

The AI we could have had - Morozov

Serendipitous use of the internet is slowly going extinct as we replace link-hopping with the algorithmic-feed. Ranked results and recommendations have become the dominant mode of exploring information online.

Drew Tada • Not Found

sari added