Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize
What happened
Machines are now the majority of consumers of web content. AI agents will soon be the largest consumers of search. Agents need search because the information required to complete real tasks is often too fresh (”Who won the Dodgers game yesterday”) or too niche (”Can the same GM sensor be used across both 2007 and 2008 Silverado and Sierra platforms?”) to live in model weights or context. But search is not built for…
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