Why wouldn't there be monopoly power? Popular API providers would still have a lot of power.

If I can get videos from YouTube or Rumble or FloxyFlib or your mom’s personal server in her closet… I can search them all at once, the front end interface is my LLM or some personalized interface that excels in it’s transparency, that would definitely hurt Google’s brand.

	▲	charcircuit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Controlling the ability to be recommended and monetized to billions of people is still powerful.