Ranking vs Reasoning: Two Different Logics of Information https://www.himpfen.com/ranking-vs-reasoning-information-systems/

#search #searchengines #seo #digitalmarketing

Ranking vs Reasoning: Two Different Logics of Information https://www.himpfen.com/ranking-vs-reasoning-information-systems/

#search #searchengines #seo #digitalmarketing

The Conversation: Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe. “Search engines rely on articles and text about a given topic, and then weigh how reliable those articles are. Generative AI instead relies on huge bodies of text, from which it measures the odds of words appearing next to each other. These ‘large language models’ are purely looking to generate […]

Very interesting glimpse into the state of the art in internet-reputation-washing 5-15 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

On the one hand, it's easy to believe that progress on laundering #SearchEngines and #Wikipedia is difficult. On the other, many people who do this work seem to have an interest in exaggerating the difficulty, and falling short, in order to justify their existence and fees.

#JeffreyEpstein was also lucky that many people shared his name, and that contractors could credibly create new, fake Jeffrey Epsteins to clog search results. Harder to do for Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, etc.

Himpfen Search: Rethinking the Search Interface for the AI Era https://www.himpfen.com/himpfen-search-ai-era-search-design/

#search #searchengines #ai #seo #advertising #webdevelopment #webdesign

Axios: Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines. “Over the past two years, referral traffic from traditional search engines has declined by 60% for small publishers, compared with 47% for medium-sized publishers and 22% for large publishers, per Chartbeat.”

Search Engine Roundtable: Google What People Are Saying With Popular & Latest Comments. “I am not sure how new this is but the What people are saying box within Google Search now also shows the more popular comments and latest comments for Reddit threads. I assume Google is able to get this data through its licensing deal with Reddit?”