in reply to The recent outage

Why does Amazon have a bot? I thought they were an online shopping center, not a search engine. Why do they have to crawl the web?

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Re^2: The recent outage
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 13, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

    If you think Amazon is just an online shop your knowledge is decades out of date.

        Sadly not, AWS, among other things.....

      If you think Amazon is just an online shop your knowledge is decades out of date.

      That might be true. But I honestly don't understand why Amazon is trying to copy the PerlMonks website. Are they looking for their competitor who is selling monkfruits for less or what? lol

        They, and every other party involved in the great AI grift need content to feed their llms. SO and AI.

Re^2: The recent outage
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 13, 2024 at 13:24 UTC
    All big (and smaller) players are investing in data hungry LLMs and offering chat interfaces.

    Just ask Alexa ;)

    They are also afraid to miss an immanent technological revolution.

    Nokia might tell a story about that.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      itym immanent eschatological revolution

        Not sure this was the term°, "the economist" had an article on that matter.

        But for what it's worth, my mobile Chrome browser doesn't display abbr tags properly. Had to look into the xml-version of your post.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        Update

        °) I think the term was "technological paradigm (shift)" , unfortunately the article I was referring to is now behind a paywall