[chrismatheson]

just to be the person ...

> AI Mode feels cleaner and more useful because it skips the clutter Google’s own algorithm helped create.

I dont think this one can be blamed solely on google. SEO has been gaming pure "best results" search algo for decades. Clickbait BS headlines, listicles and all sorts have made it harder and harder to produce what the searching person desires. Answers / Results.

Personally, much to my own annoyance, I find myself reading to LLM's for an answer more and more when the alternative is sifting through pages and pages of low quality "articles" with a personal bio & life history above the fold before the answer I want to find.

(edit) typo