☀️ Browsing the web reinvented

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• Future of search: “a browser that browses for you”

• eCommerce glow up with Shopify Magic

• Power up and learn what drives the AI revolution

• Ways to track your business impact as you go

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Your balance patch for the product and tech world.

Arc Search reinvents how we surf the internet
Buff / Search / AI

Arc Search curates a custom webpage of your search by pulling from across the web and using AI to generate link lists, images, and summaries.

Does this mean I can stop adding “reddit” at the end of my google searches?

Competitors utilize ads in their search products to generate revenue and offset infrastructure and maintenance costs, so how is Arc Search able to run their product without ads; will this become a paid service? Other things to wonder with such a product launch for the future include:

Personalization of the webpage result:

• users could set content preferences e.g. lists, images, tables, etc.

• toggle specific sources (see their favorite brands, creators)

Bottom line: Arc Search reimagines what a search engine, webpage, and chatbot are by building you a custom webpage every time- leaning into their competitive edge: personalization and user delight.

Arc is going up against monoliths in Google and Microsoft for the browser market, but their scrappiness delivers a breath of fresh air that may snowball upwards that steers away from an internet without ads.

ps. On Arc Search click on the “Browse for me” text so you don’t get a Google search webpage and wonder if that’s all there is to it…

eCommerce glows up with Shopify Magic
Buff / eCommerce / AI

Just as we’ve seen the developer space take off with AI pushing the boundaries for who can become a developer we are witnessing the same for businesses in eCommerce.

Shopify has unleashed their unlimited magic reserves making it even easier to start, run, and grow a business online. The magic will allow you to transform the presentation of your product by:

• adjusting the image background,

• optimizing the product descriptions for SEO, and

• improving email campaigns for effective communications.

While this could be done with other chatbots the presence of accessible 1st party data contextualizes the results to meet your specific needs.

However, Shopify won’t be leaving the AI innovation for the entrepeneurs and businesses- there will be a focus on the consumer to help them:

• discover new brands and products, (69%)

• find deals and special offers, (74%) and

• get recommendations based on previous purchases. (67%)

Looking forward to seeing what developments happen on the consumer-side; may need to do a deep-dive on how eCommerce has rapidly evolved from early 2000s and through the pandemic from both perspectives.

LOOT DROPS

Loot drops from across the web for your journey.

• Our dystopian future looms closer as Neuralink implants a brain chip into their first human patient.

• Google launched Circle to Search to help you shop what you see, look up definitions, and more without context switching.

• Power up for the journey ahead by learning the secret power behind the AI revolution today.

• Nice gem from LinkedIn to remind ourselves to constantly track our business impact with clear ways of doing so.

• Notion introduces a new button property to enhance project management workflows e.g. upvote, escalate, and approve.

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