Came here to write the same thing. Real search queries have gone down about a half for me. I also largely agree on the reason. Hallucinations happen, but a s

Came here to write the same thing. Real search queries have gone down about a half for me. I also largely agree on the reason. Hallucinations happen, but a specific question + answer gets me still faster where I want to be. SEO and StackOverflow karma optimisations have basically made the usefulness of my typical search results go down in the last 5 years or so. Besides, many Google search "features" feel like useless patronisation. For instance, if I search for a thing that is likely on wikipedia, with the english title, Google now shows me the corresponding german wikipedia page first. Its just that I dont need the translated stuff to be able to understand it, and, even more important, english wikipedia articles are usually a little more detailed. Thats why I searched for the english title in the first place damn it, Google. But yeah, I get why you do this. Its just, that I am not the audience you are trying to make happy... So, since there is now an alternative, you basically lost me. I guess the big picture is, they actually dont care about experts leaving. Because, you know, we are a minority.