The End of Search, The Beginning of Research
- Thinking about research as a market.
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
As Jeff Hammerbacher put it: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."
Byrne Hobart • Why The Answer Is So Often Ads
these algorithms can do little else but recommend to us that which other people have already clicked on, suggesting an implicit (and deeply ideological) assumption that we always want more of what we’ve gotten before.
Freddie deBoer • Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
A good starting point to understanding shopping behavior is identifying how customers come to a site to begin shopping. What search engine do they use? What specific search terms are entered? Do they use a bookmark they created previously?
Bill Franks • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
search is the what we sold. They bought one of three things: sales, leads, or research.