Matthew Prince

For every page that Microsoft sees, Google sees five.

For every page that Anthropic sees, Google sees six.

For every page that XAI sees, Google sees 22.

And those pages are incredibly valuable.

It's local news, medical health, you know, all of these things.

And the question is, why does Google have access to all that?

It's because they've been doing this for 27 years.

They've done all the deals with all the weird corners of the internet.

They found their way behind every paywall that's out there.

They've done all of these things that are there.

And so I actually think that there's a, when we talk to the AI companies,

All of them are saying like, hey, you know, I'm a little uncomfortable.

If Google gets everything for free, why should we have to pay for it?

So one answer is we've got to bring Google down to the same level as everyone else.

The other answer is, well, maybe what you pay for is not, you know, every piece of content that's out there.

Maybe you just pay for catching Google.

Because that's going to take forever for anyone to create on their own.

And so that's actually been an incredibly fruitful sort of line of thinking.

And as we've had conversations with all of the AI companies, they're like, actually, that's really interesting.

If you could help us catch Google and get as much information as Google, we'd be happy to compensate for that.