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“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

CNBC

“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

🔗 Read the whole thing.

“Standards are like toothbrushes - most people don’t want to use someone else’s.”

💬 David Bray

The most recent proposal from the WGA concerning AI is the following: “Regulate use of artificial intelligence on [Minimum Basic Agreement] covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI.” And, as it currently stands, the response from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is a big wet fart of an offer for “annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology.”

💬 Ryan Broderick

Their counter, put another way, is actually: “we do not want to commit to anything until we know if this technology will be good enough to replace whole writers rooms.”

… Which was my thought on reading that first paragraph, but Ryan summarizes more eloquently and efficiently.

“Spending less money and making more would’ve been something I would’ve worked on.”

💬 Ben Smith

… Ben is the founder of Semaphor, a new publication with a stable of great writers that I presume cost a lot of money to run. The countless newsletters that come out of Semaphor .. daily … are totally free.

Anyone else confused?