Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
OpenAI’s product trades Google’s vastness for directness, dimensionality for simplicity. It is Gaiman’s librarian, leveraging vast sums of human knowledge to provide a definitive answer – even if it sometimes gets it wrong. In E.O. Wilson’s Age of the Synthesizer, ChatGPT’s talent for distillation, generation, coalescence – managed at speed – may
... See moreMario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
The internet is no omniscient library, but the parallels between Borges’ story are apparent. The web is a boundless compendium of information and data scattered across billions of pages—content, as we’ve loathed to call it. In this virtual information library, Google may be the closest thing we have to a librarian.
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
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
Users have grown accustomed to tailoring their searches by platform for better results and more personalized answers: Amazon for products, Depop for secondhand clothing, Yelp for restaurants, YouTube for tutorials, Reddit for personal anecdotes. Where does that leave Google and the future of a centralized search engine?