Will Bryk

And I went back looking at research papers.

But to the world, I think it was the first time they met this new creature.

And it was just easy to use, which was a very big learning, which is like, okay, you make something easy to use.

It's very important, obviously.

But anyway, so then AI started really taking off.

And then early 2023, people started asking us for API access to our search engine that they had used based on that Twitter announcement in November 2022.

And that's when we realized, oh, wait, we could start serving this search engine to these

Not quite agents because that wasn't the term at the time, just these AI products, these AI workflows.

And they're going to want comprehensiveness.

They're going to want to search in these more complex ways.

All the ways that we as nerds in 2021 wanted to search, agents were very similar.

So that was another interesting realization was like, I'm not a normal consumer.

I want to get really deep into any topic and so do agents.

And so it's cool that we were building a search engine for ourselves.

It ended up being the exact same search engine for agents or very similar.

I've been thinking about this for a long time since there were the first agents, right?

Like, we were the first search engine.

Like, we were an early search engine, and the first AI products came to us because they were like, okay, they could be a search API.

And so I've been thinking about this for a long time.

And yeah, I think the world of agents searching is just completely different from human searching.