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Search Atlas Live Event reveals groundbreaking AI marketing tools, introduces 'Vibe SEO' concept revolutionizing digital strategy and optimization techniques #AIMarketing #SearchTechnology

🚨 BREAKING: Revolutionary discovery! Rails apps can now *gasp* search intelligently with Typesense! 🎉 Developers, rush to read the mind-boggling revelation that search bars aren’t just decorations anymore. 📚🔍
https://avohq.io/blog/intelligent-search-in-rails-with-typesense #RevolutionaryDiscovery #IntelligentSearch #Typesense #RailsApps #DeveloperNews #SearchTechnology #HackerNews #ngated

The Day I Said No to Google – DrWeb’s Domain

A personal essay… from DrWeb

The Day I Said No to Google

“I am probably the only person I know who said ‘no’ to Google in a meeting with Larry Page and Sergey Brin…”

Confession: Given my birthday coming up (hint!), I am older than dirt. Some of the memories remain, thank genes I guess. But, others are foggy. I remember the day, but the exact date escapes me. I remember the meeting, but in many ways, it has blurred into meetings of my life for business. So, I cheated, kinda. You get to decide. Claude, a creative intelligence, assisted me with the writing. I edited. This is what we did together. It felt like the best way to tell this old story now. Let’s travel back to yesteryear.. the Internet was young… One history note, I was the first Webmaster at DIALOG, and employed there from 1995-1997, when along with many others, MAID bought DIALOG, and I was let go, fired. Carry your things out in box time. My time at America Online was December, 1998, Product Manager for AOL NetFind, until November, 1999. Enjoy the memory lane!

The Meeting Above the Shop

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows of that small conference room above a Palo Alto shop, casting long rectangles of California light across our makeshift boardroom table. It was one of those perfect Silicon Valley days where the air itself seemed to hum with possibility, but the fluorescent overhead lights and generic office chairs reminded us this was business, not a social call.

I’d arranged my materials carefully before they arrived—a brief summary report for my AOL team, printed specs for what we needed, bottled water for everyone. The kind of preparation that had become second nature after years in this business [and later becoming DIALOG’s first webmaster dealing with sophisticated databases and searches], now managing search for America Online in this digital Wild West. Twenty-five million AOL users were counting on decisions like this one, though they’d never know it.

When Larry and Sergey walked in, there was something almost academic about them—Larry doing most of the talking while Sergey hung back, observing. Their energy was unmistakably that of people who believed they were onto something big. But belief and business results were different things, as I’d learned the hard way. Perhaps it was like meeting Steve Jobs, early, in his garage.

We think we can scale this in ways nobody else can, Larry was saying, sketching out their vision with the kind of confident hand gestures. You could hear the enthusiasm.

The algorithm they called PageRank sounded revolutionary in theory—ranking pages by how other pages linked to them, like academic citations. Elegant, certainly. But elegant theories didn’t always survive contact with millions of real users hitting your servers every day. Then, at AOL, we were still in the era of typing in code and managing data with spreadsheets, so, yes, after all—proven performance mattered more than brilliant concepts.

The afternoon conversation had that particular rhythm of meetings where both sides already knew the likely outcome. We asked about customers—they had few. Performance metrics under load—they were working on it. Detailed technical specifications—still being refined.

I felt those were all reasonable answers for a startup, but AOL couldn’t run on reasonable answers. We needed proven, and growign solutions, the kind Excite was delivering with their concept-based search algorithm and comprehensive portal approach—news, weather, email, the one-stop destination our users expected. I used Excite, so were many early adopters.

I found myself watching Sergey more than listening to Larry at one point. There was something in his quiet attention that suggested he understood exactly what we were really evaluating. Not just their technology, but their readiness to handle the weight of AOL’s scale and expectations. Maybe he knew, as I was beginning to suspect, that this was more a friendly courtesy call than a serious negotiation.

The meeting wound down with handshakes and the kind of polite enthusiasm that masks mutual recognition—they knew we weren’t ready to bet on an unproven system, and we knew they weren’t ready for us yet. Outside, that sunlit, warm California afternoon continued, indifferent to the small pivotal moment that had just passed in a conference room above a Palo Alto shop.

Later, writing up my report for the team, I found myself thinking about Steve Case back at headquarters in Virginia. Our larger-than-life CEO had built AOL by making bold bets, but also by knowing when to stick with what worked. Excite had customers, track records, proven performance under the kind of load we’d throw at them. Our homework showed the numbers, and it was a future option we felt we had to explore.

Their concept-based searching could understand meaning beyond mere keyword matching—sophisticated technology that had already proven itself with millions of daily users. It wasn’t glamorous compared to Larry and Sergey’s academic theories, but it was safe. And yet, choosing Excite felt like the next step, of what would be many.

I never found out if my report made it all the way to Case’s desk, but I liked to think it did—one small decision in the endless stream of choices that kept twenty-five million people connected to the emerging world of the web. At the time, it felt like the right call. Careful. Responsible. Business-smart.

The irony, of course, would only become clear later.

#1999 #2000 #2025 #AI #AmericaOnline #AOL #California #Essay #Excite #Google #History #Irony #Opinion #PaloAlto #PersonalHistory #Science #searchTechnology #Technology #UnitedStates #UniversityAvenue

🕵️‍♂️ Breaking News: Agents have unlocked the mind-blowing ability to search 🔍 using... keywords! 😱 Apparently, turning "LLM" gibberish into "compelling experiences" means adding 'chunking' and 'vector retrieval'—whatever those mean 🤔. Meanwhile, real humans continue searching by typing words like normal people. 🤷‍♂️
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/09/22/reasoning-agents-need-bad-search #BreakingNews #SearchTechnology #LLM #AIInnovation #HumanVsMachine #HackerNews #ngated

What if you could search for images…with another image?

In this clip from Revolutionizing Image Search with OpenSearch Multimodal Capabilities, we show how OpenSearch uses vectors to deliver smarter, faster, more accurate image search 👇

#VectorSearch #OpenSearch #AI #ML #SearchTechnology #SmartSearch #OpenSource

Scaling retrieval shouldn’t break your budget.

OpenSearch supports Faiss byte vectors, cutting storage and memory costs while keeping retrieval performance strong.

Save memory. Reduce costs. Scale faster. https://opensearch.org/blog/faiss-byte-vector/
#VectorSearch #OpenSearch #AI #ML #SearchTechnology #SmartSearch #OpenSource

From Query to Community — Join the Search Evolution.

Gain insights from developers, engineers, and open source contributors. Explore production use cases, and connect with those building the future of scalable search.

🔍 Keynotes • Sessions • Unconference • Community networking and more.

See you this September!
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/opensearchcon-north-america/register/

#OpenSearch #OpenSource #DeveloperCommunity #SearchTechnology #OpenSearchCon

If your site search isn’t cutting it, SearchStax might just be what you need. It makes it easier to deliver fast, relevant results. Read the blog to learn how.

https://www.specbee.com/blogs/searchstax-enhanced-search-experience

#searchstax #searchsolutions #searchtechnology #digitalexperience #searchintegration #solrsearch #searchoptimization #enterpriseSearch #drupalintegration

AppSwarm launches AskOptima.com, an AI-powered search platform with advanced NLP, conversational search, and real-time data integration. Revolutionizing digital search experiences across multiple sectors. #AI #SearchTechnology

AI assisted search-based research works now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/

#HackerNews #AIassistedResearch #searchtechnology #innovation #AIinResearch #futureofAI

Google expands multimodal capabilities in search with AI Mode rollout: Google's AI Mode brings advanced search features using Gemini 2.0 technology for complex queries. https://ppc.land/google-expands-multimodal-capabilities-in-search-with-ai-mode-rollout/ #GoogleAI #AIMode #Gemini2 #SearchTechnology #DigitalMarketing

Apple's $20 billion search comfort zone: Analysis of how Google's lucrative search deal may have discouraged Apple from developing search technology innovations. https://ppc.land/apples-20-billion-search-comfort-zone/ #Apple #Google #SearchTechnology #Innovation #TechAnalysis