Paul Davies

interesting AIO/AI mode telemetry from @ericvanbuskirk & @Kevin_Indig. was search complexity quantified? spontaneous AIO has more low-stake confirmation ("what time is the game?"). also, any thoughts on new interface disorientation? https://www.growth-memo.com/p/users-behave-differently-in-ai-overviews https://clickstream.cc/methodology-measuring-how-users-move-pause-and-reconsider-on-google-search/

“Britain needs radical change, but the difficulty (not just in Britain) is that too often the sensible people aren’t radical, and the radical people aren’t sensible.” 💯

🎯 "The search box ... became a counterparty rather than a tool"

old enough to remember the yahoo! directory giving way to an innocuous search box. another turn of a well worn wheel.

google: look! shiny blue links. also google: [managing the transition]

the revolution will eat its children. slightly grim. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technology/meta-layoffs-ai-song.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.LGa8.dVt1gJOtDopD&smid=tw-share

R to @paul: and capability manifest

context budget is the new crawl budget

llms.txt : there is definite utility in a compact, authoritative, canonical grounding doc for an entity. and in providing routes for more focused grounding where deeper context exists.

yup, it's a false distinction. and direction / cadence / sustainability is the whole thing for me. for those with disposable brands and good clickonomics there will always be arb between the now, and the next. for most, ignore it and do as aristotle did 2400yrs ago.

R to @paul: context: https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/ai-threats-in-wild-current-state-of.html

"AI-facing content is now an attack surface." "The target is not only the user. The target is ... any system that trusts page content as input." - @btabke https://www.searchengineworld.com/google-says-prompt-injection-moving-from-theory-into-real-abuse