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    If you think Amazon is just an online shop your knowledge is decades out of date.

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

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      If you think Amazon is just an online shop your knowledge is decades out of date.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

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

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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

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      itym immanent eschatological revolution

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        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

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