Why do people always think that just because you have a lot of users it automatically translates to ad revenue? Yahoo has been one of the most trafficked site for decades and could never generate any reasonable amount of ad revenue.
The other side of the coin is that running an LLM will never be as cheap as search engine.
No, I just think it's outlandish to claim LLM's will never be as efficient as the search infrastructure companies like Google use. How can you possibly know that?
Because the complexity an algorithms required to do search are a lot less than to run an LLM. Google ran well on 2000 level hardware. Could you run an LLM on 2000 level hardware? Are GPUs and equivalent hardware going to get as simple as CPUs
The other side of the coin is that running an LLM will never be as cheap as search engine.