Currently what you'd call enterprise or B2B search is estimated at about $10B annually, but I believe that'll increase significantly once more customers start discovering the value of multimodal search experiences.

We currently expose an API which customers can use for integration. We can definitely make the integration process smoother by providing out of the box ingestion options (Google Drive, S3, and such, which is planned for this quarter) and also by developing SDKs.

I think ChatGPT will be an essential part of search experiences, but I don't think it'll kill current search products. There's still a lot of value in being able to point to original sources.

Sailing on Lake Ontario outside of Toronto versus Georgian Bay you can definitely notice the difference in salinity when you get splashed by the water.
Entirely anecdotal evidence though.

Do you fear Chat GPT? If not, why not?

How does a search engine know how to direct the visitor to a certain part of a page so they don't have to scroll down it? Same for video and audio? Do the content builders have to put in certain metadata for the search engines to pick up on this or can the search engines pick up on them on their own?

Thank you! How large is the TAM right now? Also, what are the major constraints/challenges you come across while implementing your solution to clients?

I'm assuming you mean '20s. I believe that there will be two main factors in the evolution of search.

1. A far bigger focus on multimodal, rather than just text search. The old-school search companies were built in a text-first world. But text is pretty rapidly declining in importance. And while still an essential part, it's no longer enough. I think you'll see more and more companies focusing on multimedia content like video, audio and images.

2. I'd say that rather than having one huge new competitor to Google, you'll rather have large platforms that each cover a specific area of search. Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and Amazon are good examples of that, and I think the trend will continue.

What are your thoughts on the evolution of search technology this decade?

We tried a ton of different things, except that we didn't do too much advertising. We have pretty strong content marketing (constantly publishing blog posts and posting on social media), lead magnets such as e-books, posting on Reddit, HN and Product Hunt (we were the Product of the day in October).

PR actually achieved pretty good results too. A bunch of cool prospects reached out to us after the press covered our round.

It was pretty intuitive really. When I was working at Amazon, we had an internal system for training videos. As I was always on teams with fairly complex technical products (S3 and Alexa), the videos would always be pretty long and packed with dense technical content.

So whenever I wanted to look any information up inside these videos, there was no way to do it - you could search by title, description or other such metadata, but searching the content and navigating to the exact spot where something was covered was impossible.

This was the spark that led to the product.

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What growth tactics, other than partnerships, did you use to grow your startup?

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Pleasure! Codecademy is a paid service (iirc) so if you want something cheaper check our Freecodecamp. It's a great website

Much appreciated the positive response. Will check out the Code Academy.

Do water table fluctuations affect soil subsidence?

Are super foods rich diet bad for children?

What characteristics qualify a food as superfood?

Erythritol is a sugar alcohol. Too much of it may lead to gas and bloating in some people. It has not been shown to have the same negative side effects as things like Splenda and Sweet 'n Low, but some people will get gassy if they have too much of it. You're right, a lot of monk fruit products may contain erythritol, and I recommend trying out what works for you. A little bit in your coffee may be fine, but baking with monk fruit mixed with erythritol may cause bloating. Everyone is different. Just know, erythritol does not carry the same negative implications as artificial sweeteners.

Great point, Elle_in_Hell. This has been shown to be true with artificial sweeteners like Splenda, sweet 'n low, equal, etc., but not with natural non-caloric sweeteners like monk fruit and stevia.

Hi FindingEmoe, I really encourage you to keep this a positive environment. "Black Coffee" is defined in the dictionary as "coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added" (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/black-coffee). If you have a question, please feel free to ask it. If you are looking to be unkind and call people out for no reason, please discontinue, immediately. This AMA is meant to be a helpful, safe space.

1. Always a tech person! Always loved messing with various computer related stuff and getting my hands dirty to see what more I could do with X,Y or Z. Or trying to host a website just to "see how it works" and stuff like that.

2. It was rough to be honest. This image describes it best. You start to learn bits and pieces to the point where you can glue stuff up but don't quite understand it. Then comes the point where you start to understand it and you realise just how much you actually understand jack shit lol

It was mainly a process of "uh, I wonder how to do this. Let's try!" and then being exposed to more stuff I didn't know and trying to learn about those too. Mainly through YT, various tutorials and reading solutions to some Capture The Flag challenges.

3. I don't as of now but I'm working on it. Sec+ and OSCP are kind of industry standards despite them not being super up to date. HR will typically look for those. To actually "git gud" tho I recommend the PNPT.

4. As stupid as it sounds, having a good Google-Fu will take you places. Just show how fast you can learn and how much you're willing to do it. Showing some knowledge about linux, saying you have a homelab and stuff like that can help as it shows hands on experience. If you won a prize at a CTF that's also a good to know.

5. Not familiar with NCL sadly. And I'm not familiar enough with the SOC analyst role to be comfortable giving you advice sorry :(

sorry if I bombarded you with questions

1: What got you started down this field? Were you always a computer and tech person but decided to specialize?

2: When you started, how were the first few years like? Was it a process of watching YT and reading up on doc pages/write ups? How did you know what skills you needed to develop, was it learn as you go?

3: Do you have any certs and if so which ones do you recommend?

4: What skills are must haves on the resume and more specifically how did you build up yours?

5: I started doing HackTheBox and plan on signing up for NCL this year, do you think these are worth it? Do you have any suggestions for someone who wants to become a SOC analyst?

I'd say they make me heavily cringe but I don't really care about it tbh it's not like they have an actual impact and most of the time they end up "dos-ing" themselves lol

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Sometimes.