Google’s broken link to the web
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Google’s broken link to the web
A bedrock principle of Google was serving its users—but a goal was building a giant artificial intelligence learning machine that would bring uncertain consequences to the way all of us live.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The shift has heightened fears of a “zero-click” future, where search referral traffic—a mainstay of the web since before Google existed—vanishes from the scene.
AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
The problem, now so drastically different from a decade ago, is not what to read/buy/eat/watch/etc but what is the best thing to read/buy/eat/watch/etc with my limited attention.
Audacious teams, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, are trying to compete with Google head-on by building massive horizontal search engines. Rather than crawling and indexing thing... See more
Audacious teams, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, are trying to compete with Google head-on by building massive horizontal search engines. Rather than crawling and indexing thing... See more
Sari Azout • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
The internet’s 2010s, its boom years, may have been the first glorious harvest that exhausted a one-time bonanza of diversity. The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.
Our online spaces are not... See more
Our online spaces are not... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
the web as we knew it is shoved off the page, a decades-old online civilization of websites reduced to training data for slick chatbots.