In the early days of www search engines, it was common to brag about how many pages were searched to find the delivered results
Today, I don't think anyone pays attention to this anymore
We know that not all searches tap into the fuil index. All the focus is on the popular searches (largest audience for advertising). To the most make money, the search engine does not need to have the most comprehensive search, www users today do not shop for search engines, it just needs to be the "default search engine". Google has that taken care of, owning and controlling the www browser and the mobile OS, paying billions to be the default in other OS and partnering with other browsers
With LLMs we see companies today bragging about size. Grand claims like "the sum of all human knowledge". Also the scale of data centers and "compute"
But over time, will "AI" users care. Perhaps one company's "AI" will become the most popular and the "default" LLM. It will have the largest audience
And that's all that matters when the "business model" is data collection, surveillance and advertising services
Today, I don't think anyone pays attention to this anymore
We know that not all searches tap into the fuil index. All the focus is on the popular searches (largest audience for advertising). To the most make money, the search engine does not need to have the most comprehensive search, www users today do not shop for search engines, it just needs to be the "default search engine". Google has that taken care of, owning and controlling the www browser and the mobile OS, paying billions to be the default in other OS and partnering with other browsers
With LLMs we see companies today bragging about size. Grand claims like "the sum of all human knowledge". Also the scale of data centers and "compute"
But over time, will "AI" users care. Perhaps one company's "AI" will become the most popular and the "default" LLM. It will have the largest audience
And that's all that matters when the "business model" is data collection, surveillance and advertising services
Nothing new to see here