Our borrowed time is up!

When we launched BUPS in 2016, we anticipated that AI would obviate the search service we provided. What we did not anticipate was that GenAI would "suck all the air out the room" prior to providing a superior product for this niche.

The secondary impediment GenAI created was to “encourage” web sites to protect their content from bots. The BUPS “scraper” was benign in that it only captured active boat part listings & provided links back to sellers.

What irony! It is now April 2025 and apparent that GenAI is slipping in reliable results. Presumably, this is a result of GenAI content flooding the internet. Human curated content & human interaction as a basis for a task-centered search service, now appears to be an “intelligent” strategy, once again.

This blog contains information regarding BUPS. The posts are numbered and go from less, i.e. I, with increasing level of detail. Thus, you may stop reading when you lose interest ;-)

The original site with testimonials, press, etc., if still available , can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/boat-used-part-search/search

To view BUPS in operation, you should skip directly to the YouTube videos

I. BUPS Project Origin

II. What The Others Don't Do (well)

III. What The Others Don’t Do (at all)

IV: The BUPS Boat Show Brochure

V: The BUPS Search Composer

VI. BUPS on YouTube

VII. AI Collateral Damage

NOTE: Image courtesy of IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3326962/