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The question I'd love to be able to ask the author is how, in fact, this is different from search. Google successfully built a moat around that, but one can arg
by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
The question I'd love to be able to ask the author is how, in fact, this is different from search. Google successfully built a moat around that, but one can argue, too, that it should not have been long-lived. True, there was the secrete page-rank sauce, but sooner or later everyone had that. Other corporations could crawl anything and index whatever at any cost (i.e. Bing), yet search, which is in some sense also a commodity heavily reliant on models trained partly on user input, is what underpins Google's success. What about that problem allowed it to successfully defend it for so long, and why can't you weave a narrative that something like that might, too, exist for generative AI?
- politician 3y agoIf the moat is simply brand name recognition, then the market leader is OpenAI. That's an existential problem for Google and explains the author's perspective.
- frabcus 3y agoOne example - they mine people's labour of searching beyond the first page of results - so when a small % of people really dig into results, they can infer which the good sites are deeper in (e.g. by when you settle on one). Bing doesn't have enough traffic to do this as well, so is less good at finding quality new sites, reducing overall quality. Source: Doing SEO, but about 8 years ago now, the ecosystem will have changed.