According to this reuters article, OpenAI is years away from its own web search technology. I think people don't realize how hard it is to build search over the web from scratch, and that's why nearly everyone wraps Google. The challenge: filter trillions of webpages to the N that correctly ... See more

Starting from the search engine, Google quickly and decisively entered and protected the Internet value chain—always with the goal to protect the crown jewel and only real money-making machine: Search.

Internet as a whole. As the Internet grew and the amount of content increased at a superlinear rate, so did the difficulty of filtering and finding relevant information, making search increasingly important. Combine that effect with the rapid growth of the Internet itself, and the result was a massive market. Google has astutely expanded the market

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