What’s Old Is New Again: Why Search, AI, and the Rise of Intent Demand a Return to Consumer Understanding
In 1994, I wrote a thesis arguing that search would become the most powerful way to understand and serve consumer interests. Seeing search as a reflection of real human needs felt radical then. Most marketers were still locked into push-based models: interrupt, repeat, blast, convert. I believed then that findability would outpace visibility and that […]