Didn't expect this take on the subject, but you're spot on. Google's distribtuion strategy is formidable. It's truly dificult for anyone to compete with their data access and scale for model training.
Thank you for sharing those market share statistics. I knew that google had a strong presence, but I don't think I was aware of the *degree* to which Google dominates across these categories.
Hi Gabriel, I am a subscriber of your newsletter and Linkedin posts and read each one carefully. I enjoy your insight as you hit the issues we all face in the tech (or other) world.
You wrote, "We (at DuckDuckGo)...are looking to...enhance our browser and AI features. ...Workflows increasingly span across search, browsing and AI. The best experiences seamlessly blend all three in the browser."
My name is Aaron Lyman. I am the inventor of Squint the Keyword Browser and the president and founder of Big Fish Design LLC. Squint has been awarded US Patent #10,599,741 and is available on the App Store now. Squint's powerful local search engine instantly finds, highlights, blocks and organizes personal content from dozens of personal keywords - as you browse.
Together, DuckDuckGo and Squint create Earth's Best Browsing Experience.
Squint technology adds many new features and would be a terrific addition to the DuckDuckGo browser. The following video playlist showcases the remarkable synergy of DuckDuckGo and Squint. (And check out the celebration of the Super Bird Eagles!)
Squint greatly improves the search, browsing and AI experience and, together with DuckDuckGo, represents a quantum leap forward in browsers. I would welcome a chance to chat further. Please reach out and let's connect. Cheers! Aaron Lyman alyman@austin.rr.com
I’ve set a reminder to come back to this one in two years … I’m very curious how products and competition evolve in the AI space.
I just recently switched from ChatGPT to Claude. There are several guides about how to migrate as thoroughly as possible, and it was a bit of a time suck. I tried to transfer as much of my memory, projects, and custom prompts as possible, but I still have this lingering feeling that Claude doesn’t “know me as well.” ChatGPT knows me terrifyingly well.
And I’d think that DuckDuckGo (which I admire greatly, though embarrassingly don’t use) has a natural tension between serving its privacy-minded users while competing with products trying to suck up all the data of their users. Right now, I use Comet as my AI browser, Claude as my chatbot, Granola for transcription, and Matter for reading and highlighting. My fantasy is a single product that integrates all four — essentially a browser — but I know that would come with privacy trade-offs.
We should be able to create memory-like features in a privacy-protecting way through on-device processing. You seem to be an early-adopter power-user (me too) and so you might not be satisfied since we'll be a bit behind with some of the latest features, but on the flip side I hope will better nail the UX when we launch them.
Do you think that, following last week’s corporate announcement on restructuring, that Open AI and/or Microsoft may be seeking AI alliances?
I think most everyone is in deal-making mode right now.
Didn't expect this take on the subject, but you're spot on. Google's distribtuion strategy is formidable. It's truly dificult for anyone to compete with their data access and scale for model training.
Thank you for sharing those market share statistics. I knew that google had a strong presence, but I don't think I was aware of the *degree* to which Google dominates across these categories.
Hi Gabriel, I am a subscriber of your newsletter and Linkedin posts and read each one carefully. I enjoy your insight as you hit the issues we all face in the tech (or other) world.
You wrote, "We (at DuckDuckGo)...are looking to...enhance our browser and AI features. ...Workflows increasingly span across search, browsing and AI. The best experiences seamlessly blend all three in the browser."
My name is Aaron Lyman. I am the inventor of Squint the Keyword Browser and the president and founder of Big Fish Design LLC. Squint has been awarded US Patent #10,599,741 and is available on the App Store now. Squint's powerful local search engine instantly finds, highlights, blocks and organizes personal content from dozens of personal keywords - as you browse.
Together, DuckDuckGo and Squint create Earth's Best Browsing Experience.
Squint technology adds many new features and would be a terrific addition to the DuckDuckGo browser. The following video playlist showcases the remarkable synergy of DuckDuckGo and Squint. (And check out the celebration of the Super Bird Eagles!)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGrTC927q5MsPEi9iLxYOCJi9EfL71Xm&si=m7B295vLCj8-pR2rIt
Squint greatly improves the search, browsing and AI experience and, together with DuckDuckGo, represents a quantum leap forward in browsers. I would welcome a chance to chat further. Please reach out and let's connect. Cheers! Aaron Lyman alyman@austin.rr.com
I’ve set a reminder to come back to this one in two years … I’m very curious how products and competition evolve in the AI space.
I just recently switched from ChatGPT to Claude. There are several guides about how to migrate as thoroughly as possible, and it was a bit of a time suck. I tried to transfer as much of my memory, projects, and custom prompts as possible, but I still have this lingering feeling that Claude doesn’t “know me as well.” ChatGPT knows me terrifyingly well.
And I’d think that DuckDuckGo (which I admire greatly, though embarrassingly don’t use) has a natural tension between serving its privacy-minded users while competing with products trying to suck up all the data of their users. Right now, I use Comet as my AI browser, Claude as my chatbot, Granola for transcription, and Matter for reading and highlighting. My fantasy is a single product that integrates all four — essentially a browser — but I know that would come with privacy trade-offs.
We should be able to create memory-like features in a privacy-protecting way through on-device processing. You seem to be an early-adopter power-user (me too) and so you might not be satisfied since we'll be a bit behind with some of the latest features, but on the flip side I hope will better nail the UX when we launch them.