[gorbachev]

Existing users wouldn't stop visiting. Flow of new users would slow down and eventually stop, depending on how ChatGPT provided results are surfaced on the search results UI.

If it's presented as the first search result, if the information presented by ChatGPT is good enough and if there are no links to the where ChatGPT got the results from, people would not visit the source for the information.

Remember what happened to email replies when popular email clients started defaulting placing the cursor before the quoted text instead of how it used to be?