14 September 2026
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AI search

Articles about AI search from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.

Parag Agrawal expects a web that calls the agent when something changes

On Training Data, Parallel Web Systems founder Parag Agrawal traces how agents multiply web searches — from a weekly credit-risk review across 10,000 small businesses to the meeting-prep agents that run hundreds of searches before his own calls — and forecasts a web that, in a couple of years, tells agents when something worth acting on has changed.

5 min read

Parallel sold patient search agents before it could afford a web index

On Training Data, Parag Agrawal explains how his company Parallel entered web search without first building a giant index: it launched a search agent that crawled after a request arrived, replaced outsourced human data collection for insurance, sales and finance customers, and treated the index as a latency optimization to be grown later. He describes the agent-specific architecture behind it, the 200-millisecond Turbo mode Parallel announced in July, and a Google Cloud deal that puts Parallel Search beside Google Search as a grounding option.

7 min read