(bonus) cache miss: the search for something google won't let you find
A bonus episode on Google's AI-first search, the dead internet theory, and what happens when AI trains on a web that's lost its reason to publish anything real.
Show Notes
What do you lose when search becomes a conversation? Not just blue links: the serendipity, the forum thread from 2009, the researcher who spent three years on something niche and weird and true. I connect Google's AI-first search announcement to the dead internet theory (no longer just a theory), the broken feedback loop between knowledge creation and traffic, and what it means for the AI systems training on a web that's losing its incentive to be real.