The European Commission has submitted preliminary findings to Google and proposed measures to share search data with competing search engines, including AI chatbots, which are considered online search engines under the DMA, across the EU and EEA. Under the proposal, Google must share four categories of anonymized data on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. … Read more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s description of Search as a future “agent manager” made headlines this week after an hour-long interview with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. As SEJ’s Roger Montti reported, Pichai described a version of search that leaves users “running lots of threads” and completing tasks rather than searching through results. But the interview encompassed … Read more
I really enjoyed this interview with Sundar Pichai from John Collison and Elad Gil from Stripe. Here are the five most interesting things I learned. 1. Search will still exist in the future, but much of it will be agent-based Sundar was asked if agents would replace the search. He said: “If I fast forward, … Read more
