Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
- 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
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with AI search results coming to the masses, the big question on my mind is: how will publishers/businesses get distribution?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that AI was going to be “a core transformative way by which we are rethinking everything we are doing. . . . We are applying it across all our products, be it search, be it YouTube and Play, etc.” My prediction: By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but
from The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
AI-powered, in-product assistants will make a major comeback (Microsoft’s infamous “Clippy” was just ahead of its time!). Q&A interfaces on top of AI are the biggest threat to Google and other information sources that monetize via traffic.
from 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications by Scott Belsky
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Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
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- The next Google will look nothing like Google. While there is a big opportunity for companies like DuckDuckGo or Neeva that primarily compete on a single vector (e.g. privacy) but otherwise replicate the Google experience, I am excited about those creating a new, more engaging, personal, and contextualized search experience. This may look like a si... See more
from A trillion dollar opportunity by Talia Goldberg
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- In his retrospective of 2023 for his company Acquia, a SaaS platform built on top of the open source (and browser-based) Drupal software, Buytaert noted both the dangers and opportunities for the web going forward. “On one side, the rise of AI in information gathering will decrease the need for traditional websites,” he wrote. “On the other side, t... See more
from Drupal Creator: Websites Needed More Than Ever in the AI Era by Richard MacManus
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There is simply no path forward for a news outlet of any meaningful size trying to support itself on social and search traffic. So what will be the A.I. platform publishing strategy? Well, I’m going to make a couple predictions and we’ll see how I do:
- The conversational A.I. search results will get better and quickly make the human-generated results
from I hope I’m wrong!
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