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> ...qualifies them pretty well to run… a better search engine, or whatever LLMs grow to be.

Running it? Absolutely. Once again, their technical chops are not in question (at least by me).

My concern is their ability to capitalize on it. I, personally, don't trust them to stick by a product that's not search long term. I don't think I know anyone that does, it's kind of a meme by this point. I mean, killedbygoogle.com is a thing for a reason. Why would I integrate a product that's just going to be killed into my workflow?

I suppose email is the exception to that, but is there a product post 2010 that they've stuck with and properly pushed.

The way I'd expect it to work would be that they launch a product, not really market it well, and then kill it a year or two afterwards. Then 5-10 years later, they'd realize that was the product they should have stuck with. They can re-launch at that point, but at that point they're 5-10 years behind and trying to get people to switch to something that's been killed once already.