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Interview with Neeva
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 more
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 more
Google’s broken link to the web
A strategic shift was under way at Google. The company had determined its video site should present media tailored just so for every viewer, the way social networks did.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
Users have grown accustomed to tailoring their searches by platform for better results and more personalized answers: Amazon for products, Depop for secondhand clothing, Yelp for restaurants, YouTube for tutorials, Reddit for personal anecdotes. Where does that leave Google and the future of a centralized search engine?
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make the
... See moreBut smaller companies don’t have access to those mountains of data. In their quest to stay ahead, they at times turn to a dubious yet common business practice in tech — wading into legal gray areas in order to develop their products. One example is Perplexity, a buzzy AI-powered “answer engine” that found itself in hot water this summer. Reports re... See more