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Parag Agrawal

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A proposal to pay publishers for agent reads by Shapley value

Publishers could be paid each source's estimated Shapley value for AI agent use: roughly the cost of matching answer quality without it.

Updated Aug 25, 2026

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Parag Agrawal expects a web that calls agents when something changes

Parag Agrawal, founder of Parallel Web Systems, says agents already multiply web searches many times over. He forecasts that in a couple of years the web will tell agents when something worth acting on has changed.

Aug 25, 2026 5 min read

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Parag Agrawal on why Parallel sold search agents before a web index

Parag Agrawal says Parallel entered web search by selling a search agent that crawled after each request, replacing outsourced human research, and treating an index as a latency optimization to build later.

Aug 25, 2026 7 min read