Search & the Web

Search, publishing, protocols and the economics of the open web.

2 stories

Search after the answer box

Generated answers are absorbing the clicks that funded the web. Publishers are rebuilding around direct audiences.

Priya Raman · February 14, 2026 · 7 min read

Crawler traffic is now a material infrastructure cost for small sites, and the tools for managing it are blunt.

Priya Raman · February 2, 2026 · 6 min read

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