I guess I'm not understanding the value here - to compete with Google and the likes, the scale, cost and complexity would be huge. Appreciate new entrants in an existing field but not seeing this one.

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ramesh31 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>"to compete with Google and the likes, the scale, cost and complexity would be huge."

CloudFlare's entire business is scale, cost, and complexity. They are powering like half the web at this point. Wouldn't really call them a "new entrant".

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owebmaster 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Codex and Claude Code need to do countless web searches, I'd guess they have a partnership with Google. Open models don't have this partnership so the search API needs to come from somewhere.

	▲	jeromechoo 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Codex uses SerpAPI. Its been snuffed out of its thinking traces. Not sure about Claude but likely similar.