'We're in the Infoseek, Lycos, and WebCrawler era of agents'
msg · x · 2026-10-30
A pithy industry take: today's agents are at the stage search engines were in during the Infoseek, Lycos, and WebCrawler era — the paradigm exists, but the defining player hasn't arrived yet.
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