"That will NEVER replace search engines!!" -Search engine vendor "Those things will NEVER replace the horse and buggy!" -Buggy whip vendor but seriously. Sear

"That will NEVER replace search engines!!" -Search engine vendor "Those things will NEVER replace the horse and buggy!" -Buggy whip vendor but seriously. Search engines are (1) a virtual monopoly for one company. (2) hopelessly conflicted due to being run ONLY in an ad-supported model, just because that early business model was never revisited. (3) prone to a neverending trench warfare against spam and black hat SEO. Not that AI based replacements for search might not end up with the same flaws, but for the above reasons, I'm rooting for whatever comes out of OpenAI to completely upend Google's current business model (whether or not GOOG ends up being smart enough to be one of the leaders in that space or not).