AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news – the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big, complicated, nuanced AI world! Let’s go through a little history, then talk…
In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The AI will only get information that you have…
Searches in our files and emails are painful. We’re used to it now. We all play the game of trying to remember some key word that will pull up just the right file except it doesn’t, or the appointment last year that will clear up some mystery if we can just find it on the…
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…