Search engines are faltering because many intersecting trends are destroying the availability of a vibrant, indexed, text-based internet: emphasis on video cont

Search engines are faltering because many intersecting trends are destroying the availability of a vibrant, indexed, text-based internet: emphasis on video content, siloed content behind logins and paywalls, pulling traffic out into "apps" that are no longer part of the web, etc. GPT-style language models are also driving massive creation of spam that further dilutes and poisons the text sources that their own training models are derived from.