Author: Michael Ambrosio

Popular is easy to measure. Good, not so much. Setting out to make something popular requires only a focus on the crowd and on the moment. Most pop music is popular simply because that’s what it was built to do. Good work can be...

Search engines used to work one-to-one: one search query returned a unique set of results featuring pages that best matched the exact query searched. Then they evolved to many-to-one, recognizing that queries like “Sydney...

We analyzed 1.9M citations last year in an attempt to answer that question. But, as with everything AI-related, a lot has changed since then. For instance, as of January 2026, AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 3 to better...

After playing 498 days in a row, my score today in Bongo was the second-highest in the world: There’s a difference between casual online games that have a right answer, and those that are open-ended. In crossword puzzles and...