Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol enabling AI assistants to fetch real-time, verifiable information directly from decentralized publisher servers rather than relying on frozen training data, with details like sources, licenses, and authors accompanying each answer. Launched by Anthropic in November 2024 and now governed by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, MCP allows developers to write tools once that work across multiple AI platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, and VS Code. While promising up-to-date answers with clear attribution, the protocol still requires further development in areas like mandatory citation formatting, trust verification, and privacy-preserving measurement systems.