Definition

What is SuperSearch?

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

Upper bound of intelligence
  1. 01Visual intelligence
  2. 02Language intelligence
  3. 03Knowledge
  4. 04Reasoning
  5. 05Computational speed
  6. 06Physical intelligence
  7. 07Social intelligence and morality
  8. 08Creative intelligence
  9. 09Meta-cognition
  10. 10Survival and replication

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.

  1. Even the most powerful models cannot know everything. They need search for current, accurate knowledge of the real world.
  2. Every AI system needs trusted knowledge from the web before it can act.
  3. The knowledge layer is the prerequisite for every pillar above it. You cannot simulate what you do not know.

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

One search APIMetasearchSuperSearch
Engines per calloneseveralseveral
Which engine found a resultknown, there is onehidden by the mergeon every result
Receipt per enginenonostatus, latency, cost
Built foran applicationa person reading a pagea program deciding what to trust

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.