Why Search Sucks (But First, a Brief History)

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kushal_goenka · 1d ago

Search is broken. And it didn't have to be this way.

What I talk about:

1. How search evolved: From ancient librarians manually cataloging scrolls to modern semantic search (with a live demo that fights me every step of the way, because of course it does).

2. Why it still sucks: Google's private index of the public web. Reddit locking down their API. Knowledge disappearing into Discord voids. Closed-source AI hoarding data.

The talk is half "how does any of this actually work?" and half "how did we end up here?"

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Why Search Sucks (But First, a Brief History)

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