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- If I fast-forward, a lot of what are just information-seeking queries will be agentic in Search.
- Search saw more usage in Q4 than ever before, as AI continues to drive an expansionary moment.
- But business models also have shelf lives, and sometimes it’s very hard to disrupt yourself with a model that might not make any money when you’re making $200 billion on that model.
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- We absolutely were taking on the right problem probably two to three years too early.
- So I would say Search is under siege from both sides, from both the common things that you want simple answers to, and the complex things where you can apply very different techniques from what you have done before.
- Every quote from Sridhar Ramaswamy
- Consumer choice is fiction in a whole bunch of things that we do. We eat what’s put in front of us and we will search with the default search engine that came in our browsers.
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- Every person in the world is curious, but not all of them are blessed to translate that curiosity into a well-articulated question.
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- I think of Perplexity as a knowledge discovery engine, neither a search engine. Of course, we call it an answer engine, but everything matters here.
- In fact, I feel the primary difference of Perplexity from other startups that have explicitly laid out that they’re taking on Google is that we never even tried to play Google at their own game.
- We would rather take a more dramatic position, that the best way to actually make a dent in the search space is to not try to do what Google does, but try to do something they don’t want to do.
- What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that’s less profitable than a link, or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to go aggressive on, because it takes money away from something that’s higher margins.
- Every quote from Aravind Srinivas
- And, this is where I will say again, competition is not a click away. That's, like, a myth that is perpetuated by incumbents.
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- The blunt truth of the matter is that search costs maybe a billion dollars to run.
- The dominant search engine in this role has become much more about serving itself, serving advertisers.
- But, another way to think about search is that it is the ultimate expression of human curiosity.
- The magic of AdWords, the magic of online advertising, is that the core concept in it is a click.
- Every quote from Sridhar Ramaswamy