Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine

Just fyi, while the title makes it sound like a general use search engine, most of the details are on a shopping search engine that will consolidate and highlight relevant/trustworthy reviews.

I was a little disappointed after filling out the survey and realizing that consumer-focused meant shopping and not consumer as in user.

Found myself giggling at such lofty ideals for what amounts to not more than a shopping comparator website + “AI super powers”.

> "there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. For starters, he says that there is too much information and nobody can possibly process it all. What’s more, as you find this information, it’s impossible to know what you can trust as accurate, and he believes that issue is having a major impact on society at large."

I may be jaded by (too much) past experience with similarly well-intended, laudable goals going awry. Things tend to get bogged down or go off the rails because the (good) idea is to fix what turns out to be a deceptively complex problem that exists for "reasons (tm)" which stack in wickedly circular ways and are thus not easily solved completely enough for enough use cases.

I wish them the best but the first likely issue I see here is that evaluating "trustworthy" is both subjective and relative to the context of the customer and use case. For example, any topic subject to a lot of Wikipedia edit warring is likely to be difficult to address "good, fast and cheap" enough for meaningfully sustainable competitive differentiation.

Anyone remember Cuil?