Future of Search and Context
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Future of Search and Context
Via Will Bryk of Exa
Tako
trytako.comneat tool. run a search and get visual / graph visualization responses.
A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web.
- AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality publishers in aggregate +
- Crawlbots from AI companies not playing by the rules
leading to
- High quality publishers are looking to get paid *now* for "the value of their data" to compensate for traffi... See more
on enshittification
Will horizontal search agents eventually starve off their own information supply if they refuse to cut publishers into the economics?
Even if search agents do agree to AI royalties, why should publishers bother making new websites if no one’s ever going to actually see them?
one thing I saw growing up in South London in the 1980s as supermarkets deployed was that small food shops tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that supermarkets themselves couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was the de... See more
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
Revisited: one thing I saw growing up with the Internet as Google grew, was that small lists and directories tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that Google itself couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was enough interest to support this. They didn't scale - they didn't turn into chains of 30 indie directories networks - but they often prospered.
All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
The age of directories is upon us.
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
open.spotify.comIf search giants aren't interested in, well, search, I suppose it's time to look elsewhere for answers online. Share sources you trust, curate sources of information on what's important to you and dive back into specific URLs over general queries.
Search is dead — long live curation
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents With Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
Rand Fishkinsparktoro.com
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
with AI search results coming to the masses, the big question on my mind is: how will publishers/businesses get distribution?