Don't forget all the extra electricity required to achieve roughly the same thing!

It’s not just that, if asking the AI agent is going to give me the same experience google search gives me today, that’s just a few hundred billion dollars we could’ve just not spent.

There is a massive difference between an AI agent understanding the intent of my question, and keyword search on old (pre-enshittified) search engines.

Even if OpenAI needs to feed the VC beast, they will always be open source LLMs that can be used freely inside home-made search engines.

Arguabilly we are in worst place than when Google Search was not enshittified.

Google is a public company! You could have been one of "those five men".

Yes of course, let me buy a sizable chunk of one of the largest companies in the world so I can be on the five men.

Owning a few shares is not the same thing as actually making all the money someone at the top of Google is making.

It was started in a garage. George Bush didn't give them the company.

Is this a surprise though?

This is the culture of America in a nutshell. Steve Jobs was a weirdo in that regard and an outlier.

Who said anything about being surprised?

No, and no.