"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" (https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approa

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" (https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/ https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/) I believe Google earnestly worked on this for many years, but about a decade ago, after losing the lawsuit with Google Books, this moved to the back burner. The number one issue to making information universally accessible and useful is no longer technical, it's legal. It's copyright law. Google is making quite a lot of money from the status quo, and is choosing profits over their stated mission. I can't blame them. They carried the torch quite far. Now OpenAI is running with the torch. They pretty much said "FU" to copyright law and trained on everything anyway. (Which is a great thing!). And now, in many many cases, are delivering on Google's stated mission better than Google.