By charging nothing, Google have billions of paying customers.
Requiring a charge would permit upstarts to undercut that fee by other means (e.g., advertising, otherwise selling influence, data gathering to compete with Google or other firms in the area of AI, etc., etc.).
Requiring a charge would permit upstarts to undercut that fee by other means (e.g., advertising, otherwise selling influence, data gathering to compete with Google or other firms in the area of AI, etc., etc.).