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“One approach, proposed by Google Research, is what you might call a “token auction.” In this model, advertisers don’t buy ad slots on a page. Instead, they bid, token by token, on the actual text the model generates. Each advertiser brings their own LLM, and an auction mechanism decides whose model gets to influence the next word. The output is a weighted blend of competing interests, shaped by who’s willing to pay more.”
Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)
✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔 https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitumMatthias Ott (Mastodon)
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Billy Smith
in reply to Colin M. Ford • • •And this just guarantees that no-one will be able to trust the results.
Google just destroyed their Search market. 🤦
chris@strafpla.net
in reply to Billy Smith • • •@BillySmith We may need to reinvent the search engine, curated lists and webrings.
Google’s secret sauce once was page ranking by links pointing to a site, maybe we need something like page ranking by cryptographic chains of human trust. A good result is a result with a source that has a chain of human trust back to me and no ads.
For a start: “we count the number of uBO blocked requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we kick it out” teclis.com
Teclis - Non-commercial Web Search
teclis.comPaled
in reply to chris@strafpla.net • • •@chris @BillySmith I will look into using this soon. I'm aware of some other search engines that are catered towards the indie web, like @marginalia , but I somehow don't use them at all.
I do agree that hand-curated link directories are the way to go in improving navigation on the current internet.
chris@strafpla.net
in reply to Paled • • •Bitter Donald
in reply to chris@strafpla.net • • •Curated lists and webrings are absolutely essential at this point.
FediThing
in reply to Colin M. Ford • • •