botmonster @botmonster.com · 24d Only Google and Microsoft own a web-scale search index. Everyone else rents. Claude and Mistral reportedly run on the Brave Search API; ChatGPT leans on Bing plus its own crawler. Brave is quietly AI's third search pole. Did you know your AI rents its search?
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ChatGPT mixes Bing, OpenAI's own crawler, and publisher deals. IndexNow only helps Bing-backed AI products, not Brave or Google. Brave now sits beside Google and Bing as a third index. https://botmonster.com/ai/ai-web-search-backends-who-owns-who-rents/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
I did not know that, very interesting