Th3 Core

>depressing

It is a bit. Just 1% of the market is about 90m queries a day, at $5CPM that's $13.5M a month. Google make about 10x that with their critical mass of advertisers.

The gist I get from Neeva is that they were unfocused, and flouncing between fads.

Haven't heard anything from or about Gigablast though.

The customer acquisition thing is definitely key. And convenience. I'd say to people, especially tech people- if they could donate 1 of 100 searches to another source, it'd promote some more competition. G have it pretty much wrapped up as the browser defaults etc.

We put up a blog post about it, and someone posted it on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35977322

It's sort of amazing how little talk there is about disrupting the status quo.

The Ripple Energy co-op I'm in looks like it may be held back by a few months due to grid connection, not as bad as the decades long issues some other projects are facing.

Sounds like reform is definitely needed, especially if nefarious outfits can fill the backlog with projects that'll never happen. The process is definitely outdated and maybe partly a consequence of US/UK grids being older.

https://twitter.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1652993570721210372

"In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly."

Second guessing myself lately replying to comments on forums/social media etc wondering whether there's a human behind them.

It's been down for over a week. Domain and IP still there, just nothing listening on ports.

IIRC they were a bit of a thing shortly after Alltheweb and Google were fighting over who had the largest index, probably when they gained the most notoriety.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b2304210.html

ChatGPT has stopped working, with users around the world complaining about issues with OpenAI.

Website health monitor Down Detector logged hundreds of reports from ChatGPT and GPT-4 users, who complained that OpenAI is down and the chatbot was not working.

https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie

The Camera-Shy Hoodie is a DIY adversarial garment designed to give the user the option to anonymize themselves within the recording of a night vision security camera.

I can't help feel this might attract attention in some unintended ways... unless lots of people wear one.

I seen an article on SEL about blocking chatGPT and it said blocking common crawl.

It failed to notice that you can ask chatGPT about websites and it'll be crawled by MS IPs. Seen examples where it scrapes about 3-4 pages a second then grabs robots.txt last. So you can't rely on honourable robots.txt blocking based on that.