FWIW,  I just finished writing this weekend. Here is yet another blog post, this time about Google's growing irrelevance. 

Google has entered its middle-aged mediocrity phase. Once the pioneer of innovation, it’s now bogged down by bureaucracy and an advertising-driven model. Here’s my take on why Google risks becoming irrelevant in the AI era. https://om.co/2025/03/29/the-mediocrity-of-modern-google/

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That said most people don’t want to pay for things and will put up with garbage all day long

100%. Sometimes I think that breaking it down could be the best thing that can happen to them.

BTW, I've been using Kagi as my search engine for a few months, and it's so good. This and the fact that 99% of my dev-related searches (how to do this and that) are better covered by ChatGPT, I think if Google went down tomorrow, my only problem would be my gmail account.