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| | Kyle Chayka writes about the evolution of Google Search, which has become the runaway favorite Internet search engine despite many users misgivings about how the company monetizes the data it collects and how its algorithms determine the search results that a user is shown.
| | michael-lewis.com
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| | An introduction to vector search (aka semantic search), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
| | mjtsai.com
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| | [AI summary] A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets through practices like paying companies to be the default search engine. The ruling, led by Judge Amit Mehta, highlights how these payments incentivize companies like Apple to avoid competing with Google, thus preserving Google's dominance. The case now moves to determining remedies, with potential changes to the search market and antitrust enforcement.
| | siddharthsabron.in
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| Siddharth is a software engineer, primarily interested in algorithms, design principles, databases, storage engines, large-scale systems and distributed systems