Consensus 2021 presented a case for the ill effects of Google’s monopoly on search -- citing an unregulated ability to influence people with search results and a crushing state of monopoly coming from the size of their index. Amy James, Co-Inventor of Open Index Protocol (OIP) explained that Google's index is too large and not open-source -- so anyone entering the search space, or anything that uses indexing and searching such as a video platform or social media platform, either has to deal with Google to use their backend or will be hopelessly outmatched.