Mark Williams-Cook

Obviously, Google, there was possibly they might have to sell Chrome.

Perplexity has launched Comet, its own browser, is that they could harness information or how people are interacting through the browser.

So I think, again...

Talking about earlier, the simplicity of Google results made, I think, the crunching of that user data possible.

I think the variability of people asking a million different questions a million different ways and then trying to figure out

what's good and what's not based on the browser interaction and you have to account for the fact that people might give positive signals to incorrect answers because they think it's correct as you said corey you know you're only really asking the ai basically questions that you know the answer to and it's helping you and inspiring you but then it's like what's the point in a system you can only ask questions you know the answer to

And that's contrary to like all the changes we're seeing in privacy, right?

Privacy is moving the opposite direction.

It's like no cookies, like browsers now stopping, like stopping the letterboxing, the fingerprinting with browsers.

So they're

adamantly trying to push you know the uk everyone's on vpns now because we've got these sweeping online safety laws which means i can't even send direct messages on blue sky anymore unless i have government id that proves i'm 18 wow of course i'm just going to use a vpn like yeah yeah that further obfuscates who i am so um i wouldn't say i'm i'm worried because it's not my problem

But I'm really interested in how it's going to pan out because there's the big cheese, right?

All the money is at the end of that tunnel.

And it's like, who's going to blink first?

Because, you know, there's a lot of people, you know, way smarter than me working on this, right?

So...

I really hope they've thought about it and I say hope because I've I spoke recently to um uh so this April to uh someone working at Google and I was talking to him about search console and the data we get through there and what would be helpful and they were they were saying like well why don't we just give them like this score you know like from from Google about this and he's like

No, no, no.

You don't understand what happens if we tried it with like toolbar page rank, like it will create chaos.

If you give them any data like that, it becomes, you know, there was a whole market set up for link selling based on page rank of individual pages.