[karaterobot]

I'm not sure that being bad is not the same as being vulnerable. Even people who despise Google (like yourself) apparently still use it. Google replaced Altavista et al. because it was miles better than they were. Nothing today is miles better than Google, and there is a lot less competition than there was in 1999. Google is synonymous with search, literally. I can't imagine a scenario in which anyone in my family stops using Google as a search engine; the idea wouldn't occur to them. I've been a Kagi user since the beta, and a DDG user before that, and still don't think Google's going anywhere soon.

[CuriouslyC]

My google volume has dropped heavily since chatgpt. I mostly use it to pull up urls for things when I already know what I'm looking for, or if I'm looking for very current information. ChatGPT can use bing which helps a lot with the current information aspect but I haven't found its search performance to be great, it's slow and it really wants to just answer questions briefly in accordance with its alignment. If it was faster and designed more around showcasing the best sites and content (like a search recommender hybrid) while also answering questions directly when possible it would be amazing.