I think past hackernews comments and posts have proven that this is at least partially wrong. The drag is real. How many posts are there about duckduckgo -- in

I think past hackernews comments and posts have proven that this is at least partially wrong. The drag is real. How many posts are there about duckduckgo -- in its golden days; that it was better and should be the default. How much people preaching time and marketing has been spend on that? And yet the average user, even technical users does not care. It has to be a vastly different experience, e.g. ChatGPT enabled search -- like Bing now say -- and even then, the monopoly moats placed by Google and the decades of inaction by DoJ have created what we have now. Chrome should have never been allowed to be under Google or Alphabet. Paying to set a search engine to this scale should not have been allowed as a practice. [Edit:] P.S. And to answer all the thousands of comments by users here of why Google has gotten worse: because it can; it can get worse while maximizing its ad profit; DoJ allowed it.