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Todays show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss the potential of new search engines (16:44), the future of SEO(37:35), and demo innovative AI products (48:37).
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(2:42) Deep Dive into the cost of running queries and the decrease in the price of hardware storage
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(12:33) The LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
(16:44) Modern Answer Engines: You.com and Perplexity
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(30:22) Potential and challenges of new search engines
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(37:35) Future of SEO and data sources in the context of new search engines
(48:37) Sunny demos Infinity AI
(54:35) Sunny and Jason discuss Hume AI’s Empathic Voice Interface
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