ENCORE: In Search Of

Politicology

Mar 19, 2025•46 min•Season 2Ep. 463

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Episode description

Pat Condo (Founder and CEO of Seekr Technologies) joins Ron Steslow to discuss the media landscape, their search tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to index websites and news stories to rate the content so readers can make better informed choices about what they read.

(02:26) From navigation technology to search technology

(05:46) Why he decided to create Seekr

(37:50) What makes Seekr different from other search engines

(44:22) The incentive structure for news organizations

(51:20) How Seekr measures political lean in articles

(55:20) How AI generated news stories can change the media landscape

(1:02:06) Pat’s end goal in creating Seekr

You should check out Seekr: https://news.seekr.com/

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