Balaji S on The New Search Engines

Today’s Twitter Story will require a little more clicking through in the diverse Twitter threads that are linked to. I found this one interesting, for example:

In other words, assuming I understand him correctly, synthesis engines search for you, and synthesize for you. It’s not just the mechanical trawling of the many alleys of the internet, it is also the packaging together of the results of the search.

I think elicit.org (covered earlier) is a good example, but I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.

It’s not just a bicycle for the mind anymore, it’s the bicycle and the mind.