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by charcircuit 119 days ago
Why wouldn't there be monopoly power? Popular API providers would still have a lot of power.
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If I can get videos from YouTube or Rumble or FloxyFlib or your mom’s personal server in her closet… I can search them all at once, the front end interface is my LLM or some personalized interface that excels in it’s transparency, that would definitely hurt Google’s brand.
Controlling the ability to be recommended and monetized to billions of people is still powerful.
And how would you search this petabytes of data?