28.07.2025

54 min listen

Season 4 Episode 29

AI search engines are full of spam

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Jack Chambers-Ward and Mark Williams-Cook discuss the evolving landscape of search in the context of Large Language Models (LLMs), the challenges they bring, including A LOT of spam and how they are being manipulated in search.

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Show overview

The discussion also covers the abundance of spam in LLMs spam and how they are being manipulated in search. They talk about the potential future of AI search, and the implications for brands and consumers as well as the responsibilities of monitoring and mitigating misinformation, the need for in-depth product data, and the feasibility of AI taking over transactional tasks.

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Mark Williams-Cook (holding Snoop the dog) and Jack Chambers-Ward standing together, smiling. Jack is wearing an Opeth t-shirt. They are a cool Scandinavian metal band, apparently.