Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.
💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information
One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.
💬 John Gruber
I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.
“There is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search,” a combination of the difficult economic environment as well as the challenge that Neeva had found in persuading people to sign up for its search engine. “From the unnecessary friction required to change default search settings, to the challenges in helping people understand the difference between a search engine and a browser, acquiring users has been really hard.”
💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan
The Headline:
Neeva Shuts Down Search Engine Ahead of Snowflake Deal
The report is so dry it makes the Sahara look like a rainforest.
💬 Martin Peers
“Google has this backwards. They should force all their engineers to use Chromebooks, and let everyone else continue using MacBooks. Maybe then they’ll turn ChromeOS into something useable for real work.”
💬 John Gruber
“I think you should know in what surroundings you do your best work and solve for that.”
💬 David Sparks
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Soon enough, the traditional 10 blue links on a search engine results page will seem as archaic as dial-up internet and rotary phones.
💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar is the former head of Google search and co-founder of Neeva, a new search engine powered by AI - so of course he would say that … wouldn’t he?
As the hype around BlueSky builds, I am reminded of the hype that surrounded Clubhouse. Looks like that’s what Charles has been thinking.
Velvet rope: it tells you that the people who got past it are special. Unlike you.
💬 Charles Arthur
“Standards are like toothbrushes - most people don’t want to use someone else’s.”
💬 David Bray