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.