[dale_glass]

Google is probably even more afraid of ChatGPT replacing it. So giving the user what they want is likely their way to try to hang on.

IMO a LLM is just a superior technology to a search engine in that it can understand vague questions, collate information and translate from other languages. In a lot of cases what I want isn't to find a particular page but to obtain information, and a LLM gets closer to that ideal.

It's nowhere near perfect yet but I won't be surprised if search engines go extinct in a decade or so.

[LarMachinarum]

another reason why I find myself often using LLMs instead of classical search engines is the possibility to obtain structured data and format the output so as to match my use case, e.g. as markdown table, or as json file etc.