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Nilay Patel
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Ecologia Digital1st 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
"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
David PierceTomorrow 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
Zach LeathermanReading 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.
Anil DashThis 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.