Norway is basically shut down for most of July 👌

It doesn't seem that is so clear cut:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/

Absolutely 👌

Looks similar to Norway and Sweden 😄

Summer is the nicest day in Norway 😄

Given the natural monopoly nature of search indexing, wouldn't it be better to do this as public financed open source?

The intrinsic knowledge of LLMs is very unreliable, I agree. But combined with f.e. web-search or hand picked context, they perform rather well. You can see the actual sources it read in the MCP tool call depending on the tool you use. (For me usually Kagi Assistant or Zed editor with Kagi MCP)

For me it is a great help to be able to search the web for relevant sources about public administration in a foreign language and still get summaries in the original query language.

Skimming a large amount of potential sources is also really practical.