maltelandwehr's comments

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. It is wrong that our "snapshots" are not reproducible.

Also, AIVO and PSOS are made up concept that nobody but you is using or accepts. Just because you write in a scientific, authoritative manner does not mean a sentence like "cost estimates to ground the framework in practice" have any meaning.

Can you explain the exploited part?

My understanding is they performed work and were paid for it at market rate. So just regular capitalism. Or was there more to it?

Any idea why they only raise small amounts every few months ($180M in July, now $200M)?

Can they not find a private equity investors willing to commit a larger sum? Or is their evaluation risking so quickly that it is cheaper for them to raise every couple of months?

This is more about requiring JavaScript that blocking specific browsers. I think all the new LLM labs (plus all the tools offering SEO services for LLM-based search and answer engines) finally reached a limit of scraping that Google no longer can sustain.

I think all the new LLM labs (plus all the tools offering SEO services for LLM-based search and answer engines) finally reached a limit of scraping that Google no longer can sustain.

Doesn't the existence - and lack of adoption - for Ecosia and similar services suggest that Europe cannot easily build FAANG overnight?

Technically, we can do it.

But unless we go the Chinese route of blocking US vendors, a lot of people will always flock to the better product that has the bigger marketing budget. And there I do not see how Ecosia could compete with Google, Xing with LinkedIn, Mistral with OpenAI, OHV/IONOS with AWS, or Hetzner with GCP.

In August, Youtube received about 6 billion clicks from organic search. That is 20% of Youtube's total website traffic. I think that is significant.

Source: Similarweb, world-wide

Youtube is a top 3 cited domain for many LLMs-based search and answer engines. So it should we one of the few domains that actually get significant clicks from ChatGPT, Perplexity & Co.

Looking at my own behavior, I have to agree though. For stuff for which I used to look for a video tutorial, I now ask ChatGPT.

Didn't Apple just say they might rely on another LLM lab to bring more capabilities to Siri? Why do they think the web-index-part is the one thing they should do in-house?

In same cases, lower quality of search results leads to more ad clicks and thus more revenue.

I like AI answers because they save time. Since Google's are so bad, I have switched to ChatGPT for 90% of my searches.

> The successor is AI Visibility Optimization (AIVO)

AIVO is a term pushed by one single tool/agency in the AI search space. Nobody is using it.

Literally every submission you wrote on this site is to push your pseudo term.

> Google lives off ads that direct users to websites, websites they are doing their damnedest to make unnecessary.

People will still spend the same amount of money to purchase goods and services. Advertisers will be willing to spend money to capture that demand.

Having their own websites is an optional part. It can also happen via Google Merchant Center, APIs, AI Agents, MCP servers, or other platforms.

I believe there will be fewer clicks going to the open web. But Google can simply charger a higher CPC for each click since the conversion rate is higher if a users clicks to buy after a 20 minute chat vs if a user clicks on an ad during every second or third Google search.

I don't think that is too unrealistic.

• Small models have performed really well in recent years. • Newer phones will have more RAM. • Private LLMs do not necessarily need to run locally.

How can we adapt that to LLMs? Do LLM providers pay for access to these articles?

Do I as a user have to do a micro transaction whenever an LLM generates an answer on one of those paywalled articles? Because as a user, I do not wish to read the quality journalist analysis, I wish for it to be part of the LLM answer that is tailored towards me.

> An allowlist run by one company that site owners chose to engage with. The allow/blocklist is pre-filled by CloudFlare.

The bots/crawlers/browsers are pre-categorized by CloudFlare.

Defaults matter and how CloudFlare categorizes your privacy-focuses or agentic browser would impact your experience on a good chunk of the web.

The horrible UX on mobile, especially when traveling to another country and having to deal with forced geo-redirects, is the main reason I have largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for my everyday search needs.

I do not think it was just the bad acquisitions.

Yahoo also turned from a tech company into a media company. At some point, every decision was made with a media company mindset.

This includes making decisions that prioritize short-term revenue over building growth loops or enhancing user retention.

Also, no investments into technology. Browser, CDN, proper web hosting, cloud - they missed everything.

How is ellm different from the more established tools in the market (Profound and Peec AI)?

The 37M/day is an estimate from Rand Fishkin that often gets quoted as gospel. It is based on limited external data. OpenAI mentioned 1B/day - and had significant overall growth in usage since then.

Also, 1 search on ChatGPT easily replaces 5-10 searches on Google.

Many B2B SaaS companies already get the same amount of leads from ChatGPT that they get from Google. Because clicks from ChatGPT are better informed and have a significantly higher conversion rate. I am talking up to +700% CVR vs traffic from Google for some companies.