See, “search” has never just been “search.” Search has always been an epistemic journey. You’re building knowledge, you’re not in and out with one query. You google first with a vague intention, you learn some of the vocabulary. You google more, back and forth, and you pick up the terminology and trade-offs – whether you want a hotel or Airbnb, that kind of thing, or which dentist is on your bus route, or that your initial question wasn’t what you meant. Finally you know how to frame your real query, with well-known terms, you perform your actual transaction (book your hotel, write your report, after fighting past the pop-ups and the slop results), and you’re done.
Search engines aren’t a great fit for epistemic journeys. It’s a messy process. But it’s what actually happens.
Enter chat.
— Read on interconnected.org/home/2025/02/11/mcp
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