[seadan83]

That latter point might be illuminating for a number of additional ideas. Specifically, should people have questioned Google's credibility from the start? Ie: these are the search results, vs this is what google chose.

Google did well in the old days for reasons. It beat alta vista and Yahoo by having better search results and a clean loading page. Since perhaps 08 (based on memory, that date might be off) or so, Google has dominated search, to the extent that it's not salient that search engines can be really questionable. Which is also to say, google dominated, people lost sight that searching and googling are different, that gives a lot of freedom for enshittification without people getting too upset or even quite realizing - it could be different and better

[seadan83]

My point was not well stated. My hope is that if people learn to question AI summaries, they might also learn to question the rest of the search page.