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Benedict Evans — Essays

  • By Benedict Evans
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly 12 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 13
2022 8
2023 8
2024 12

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Competing in search
A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web. PageRank used signal from links created by people, but once people started using Google …
On , by Benedict Evans, 2,834 words
The AI summer
My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now. It just took time - it took years to build out broadband, consumers had to buy …
On , by Benedict Evans, 1,836 words
The VR winter continues
It can feel a little odd to write about anything other than generative AI these days, but I sometimes remind people that all the things that we were talking about in October 2022 are still …
On , by Benedict Evans, 375 words