I have felt for about six months that the web as we've known it is dead. The contract you speak of is on its last legs. The problem is, with GPT style AI I thi

I have felt for about six months that the web as we've known it is dead. The contract you speak of is on its last legs. The problem is, with GPT style AI I think this was inevitable, Google has just decided to ride the wave rather than falling into obscurity. Also, google has youtube, which should not be underestimated as a source of information. There is a lot of good, credible information on youtube, with even better signals (sub counts) than the traditional web. This is Googles ace in the hole so to speak, the web can die, they can still feed their AI's with youtube, who else can?