Completely agree with this skepticism. It reminds me of when people claim that TikTok is now a "search engine", as if entertaining/slick videos (even if they're

Completely agree with this skepticism. It reminds me of when people claim that TikTok is now a "search engine", as if entertaining/slick videos (even if they're reliably surfaced via search query) are going to be more useful on the whole than information I can skim and read [0]. On the other hand, I do agree with people speculating that LLM-AI interfaces will seriously hurt Google's bottom line, e.g. reducing the space for search ads, which represent the majority of its revenue. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/technology/gen-z-tiktok-search-engine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/technology/gen-z-tiktok-s...