Future of Search and Context
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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... 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.
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?
The real villain here is Google.
Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet.
This is the natural end state of that process.
During the first few decades of the internet, we were taught to search for things in a certain way. We might type in “blue jeans,” for instance, or “black dress.”
Search is changing rapidly, as search gets smarter and more contextual. Observing younger people browse and shop, we see changes in real time. It’s becoming more common to search something... See more
Search is changing rapidly, as search gets smarter and more contextual. Observing younger people browse and shop, we see changes in real time. It’s becoming more common to search something... See more
2024 will accelerate changes in search
A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.
Michael Seibeltwitter.com
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