Future of Search and Context

The problem with Google Search isn't ads. It's a problem of automation vs curation. What we need is a mimetic search engine¹ (not instead of Google but in addition to it). — ¹ https://julian.digital/2020/05/28/what-shopify-and-amazon-can-learn-from-mimetic-theory/... See more

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