search

“Search was well known to be a bad business and portals was a good business. So you had to search was a way to get them into your portal where you then show like celebrity gossip and then banner ads. And that's why Yahoo actually outsourced their search to Inkt…”

“Google is, is not one organization. It's one type of culture around billions of scale, scale in the billions, super hard problems, but they really are like an enterprise company focused on search, you know, like that's built in there and they have a product cy…”

“Google just struck me as absurd on its face for two obvious reasons. One is everybody knew search was a low quality user experience. And two is everybody knew that search was a cost center, not a profit center.”

“When I think about search today, it's a narrative that's almost entirely controlled by an advertising company.”

“These LLMs are going to replace search. But it turns out that's actually going to be really, really hard because there's a lot of things that search does that, that the models are bad at it really bad.”