We are not at all in disagreement. In fact, you are making the same point I'm making, which is that there is nothing special about any of the commercially available search engines today. With access to OpenAI's embeddings API and to a vector database, a mid-level engineer can build a highly scalable search engine in a few weeks. As a startup, it makes sense today to build your own search engine rather than buy off the shelf.

The only thing companies like ElasticSearch and Algolia still have is their pre-existing customer bases, a few thin layers of marketing, and some network effects. Search engine companies are effectively marketing companies nowadays.

That explains why the corrupt management at my company thinks it's a better strategy to throw hissy fits on social media in the general direction of OpenAI, than to work on actually building useful tech.