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#137 - Only Three Search Engines Left Standing: One of Them Powers Your AI with JP Schmetz // Chief of Ads @ Brave

alphalist.CTO Podcast · 2026-05-07 · 1h 33m

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Thirty years building search infrastructure - and why the AI industry quietly depends on it. SHOW NOTES Jean-Paul Schmetz has been close to search infrastructure for nearly three decades - as founder of Clix, the European search engine that eventually became part of Brave, and now as Chief of Ads at Brave Software. In this conversation with Tobi, he opens up the hood on one of the internet's most misunderstood infrastructure layers.

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