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The AI search engines are here — and getting better
In this week’s Installer: ChatGPT search, Nintendo Music, Pokemon TCG Pocket, and much more.
If you haven’t read the book this new series is based on — about the British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s disastrous attempt to sail to the South Pole — do that this weekend. That folder has since expanded recently thanks to the coffee shop as I now have Homebase for scheduling my baristas, Poplin to get our cleaning rags picked up and delivered, Shopify for inventory / POS / sales / obsessive data analyzing, Ring for all the cameras in the space and to make sure milk deliveries show up on time in the middle of the night (we use a service called Odeko, which has a key and brings supplies in / puts the milk in the fridges for us), and Peerspace to make sure I can respond to inquiries to rent out the back space. The Wall Street Journal has a fun investigation into how they work, The Washington Post has good tricks for turning them off, and our friends at Vox did a great podcast about how they became such a scourge.
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