What Happened to My Search Engine?
Most people don’t want their information mediated by bloated, monopolistic, surveilling tech companies, but they also don’t want to go all the way back to a time before them. What we really want is something in between. The evolution of Google Search is unsettling because it seems to suggest that, on the internet we’ve built, there’s very little ro... See more
Charlie Warzel • Is Google Dying? Or Did the Web Grow Up?
This is how I put it in the February 22, 1999, issue of Newsweek: “Google, the Net’s hottest search engine, draws on feedback from the web itself to deliver more relevant results to customer queries.”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Google Search is, of course, an extraordinarily useful product. But there are an increasing number of search use cases where Google falls short. If you’ve been in crypto for a while, you probably primarily use Twitter to get the day’s news, and a mix of Twitter, Medium, Substack, and podcasts to learn about new technologies. You probably rarely use... See more
Devin Walsh • UnMixed Motives
Having a great search engine is kind of useless if, for example, somebody types in “how to take better landscape photographs,” and nobody online has an answer.
Baldur Bjarnason • The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
Again, it’s important to emphasize that a.) Google understands better than anyone how important its search product is, strategically, to its business, and b.) Google employs a massive number of brilliant, dedicated, customer-obsessed employees that are focused on upholding and improving the quality of its search engine.
And yet, again, it’s difficul
... See morerecently noted • You Are Your Business Model -
At one point, Yahoo had 183 links on their home page. Google, which had two, ultimately grabbed all of their search traffic.
Seth Godin • Feature creep
