Definition
SuperSearch (noun): the last mile of knowledge for a machine. Reaching whatever has to be known, wherever it is, at the moment it is needed, with the source named and the retrieval checkable. In practice today: web search that asks many engines in one call and returns one list where every result says which engines found it, with a receipt per engine. It finds what no single engine finds alone.
01 / Ten pillars of superintelligence
Ten spaces of intelligence. In every one we are far from the upper bound.
Under pillars 2, 3 and 4 sits one requirement, the last mile of knowledge. Whatever has to be known must be reachable, wherever it sits.
GPUs, the internet, browsers and search are becoming the infrastructure of superintelligence. SuperSearch is the search part, stated as a capability. The essay →
02 / What it is not
Metasearch is a 1990s word for a page that merges engines for a person to read. SuperSearch keeps the seams visible, because a program needs them: the overlap between engines is the signal, and the receipt is how it is audited.