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> "there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. For starters, he says that there is too much information and nob
by mrandish 6y ago
> "there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. For starters, he says that there is too much information and nobody can possibly process it all. What’s more, as you find this information, it’s impossible to know what you can trust as accurate, and he believes that issue is having a major impact on society at large."
I may be jaded by (too much) past experience with similarly well-intended, laudable goals going awry. Things tend to get bogged down or go off the rails because the (good) idea is to fix what turns out to be a deceptively complex problem that exists for "reasons (tm)" which stack in wickedly circular ways and are thus not easily solved completely enough for enough use cases.
I wish them the best but the first likely issue I see here is that evaluating "trustworthy" is both subjective and relative to the context of the customer and use case. For example, any topic subject to a lot of Wikipedia edit warring is likely to be difficult to address "good, fast and cheap" enough for meaningfully sustainable competitive differentiation.