Future of Search and Context
by sari and · updated 12d ago
Future of Search and Context
- 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
from Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans by ben-evans.com
Robin Good added 12d ago
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.
from Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans by ben-evans.com
Robin Good added 12d ago
#434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet
sari added 13d ago
- If 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.
from Search is dead — long live curation
Robin Good added 17d ago
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents With Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
by Rand Fishkin
phoebe added 1mo ago
- 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 morefrom Google’s broken link to the web
sari added 2mo ago
with AI search results coming to the masses, the big question on my mind is: how will publishers/businesses get distribution?
Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google
sari added 3mo ago
"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling SocietyRobin Good added 3mo ago
- “I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.
In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... See morefrom Folk search engines by Elan Ullendorff
aron added 4mo ago