I think this is the author's wishful thinking more than anything else. Google isn't going to face some existential threat by Microsoft+OpenAI, at least not in t

I think this is the author's wishful thinking more than anything else. Google isn't going to face some existential threat by Microsoft+OpenAI, at least not in the near term because the biggest chunk of the work to get a good AI response in a search product is retrieving good context to feed it. How do you do that? Well you need an index of the web and a good ranking algo... oh wait.