Mastodawn

Nilay Patel May 20, 2024

Ecologia Digital May 20, 2024

1st question to Google's CEO, by @nilaypatel:
"Do you think language is the same as intelligence?"
Sets the tone for a good interview on Google's #AI prospects on #search:
"If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website?"
Check out the CEO's answers:
https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-search-gemini-future-of-the-internet-web-openai-decoder-interview

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web

Google’s Sundar Pichai discusses the latest in AI, search, and what the web will like in the future.

The Verge

Nilay Patel Jun 30, 2023

David Pierce Jun 30, 2023

Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the end of Google Reader. So I tried to figure out what went wrong, and wound up with a story about a better social internet we could have had and instead threw into the trash https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge

Nilay Patel May 8, 2023

Zach Leatherman May 8, 2023

Reading a new retrospective on Google’s AMP project from @davidpierce: https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

One small missing piece of history: the 700+ folks that signed http://ampletter.org/ starting back in 2017.

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.

The Verge

Nilay Patel May 8, 2023

Anil Dash May 8, 2023

This is a great overview by @davidpierce about the fatally flawed AMP effort from Google. As @zachleat notes, a number of prominent web developers *did* (quite bravely) speak up against it, even as Google treated it as an inevitability for the internet. https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.

The Verge