Sridhar Ramaswamy: Your search history is "incredibly personal"

Media corporations should be scrutinized as much as tech companies for their incentive structure.

Eli Pariser put it on the Techdirt Podcast recently. It’s like we live in a world with no libraries, only bookstores. And in that case, “you don’t blame a bookstore for not being a library,” says Eli. Instead, you figure out how to open a dang library! And once you have a library, you don’t evaluate it in bookstore terms — no one expects 10x or 100... See more

Neeva, DDG, or Startpage, cannot be real competition, even though they could have nice features worth copying. Google and Microsoft will never be scared of them because they can be strangled at any time, simply by limiting or throttling access to their APIs... A tenant cannot really challenge their landlord, and that's why at Brave we went with the... See more

Advertising is worth saving, and while Web3 will indeed enable all sorts of new business models, we should not be so quick to discard the mechanism that funded most of what we treasure about the ‘first draft of history’ called journalism (and much else besides). Certainly, any discussion of the advertising future which starts with some morality pla... See more

The State of FANGEach of the FANG companies is in a similar position in their respective industries: they haven’t so much disrupted incumbents as they have subsumed them:Facebook: The late David Carr, who first broke the news about Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative back in 2014, worried that “media companies would essentially be serfs in a kin... See more