[Den_VR]

If the free market is any indication, because it’s more effective than what passes for a search engine these days.

[bluefirebrand]

It's not, but there's sure a lot of money and pride riding on getting people to believe it is

[Den_VR]

16.4 billion google searches per day vs 2.6 billion consumer chatgpt prompts and another 2.6 billion claude prompts. Maybe it’s apples and oranges but google has been a verb for nearly twenty years (oxford added it as a verb for web search in 2006).