[bwfan123]

google was also accused in its early days of free riding on other people's content - google news still remains controversial. Also, in its early days, google did not have to deal with a large counter-party like cloudflare which is now a gatekeeper of sorts.

The problem I see for chatgpt/perplexity and the like is this: for good responses to many questions, they have to index the web real-time. ie, they become a search-engine. However, they cannot share revenue with the content-providers since they dont have an ad-model. I wonder how this would be resolved - perhaps thru content licensing with the large publishers.