Late to this comment thread but my two cents. They have started breaking down search in Gmail as well, I've noticed that for a month or so. Just as it started

Late to this comment thread but my two cents. They have started breaking down search in Gmail as well, I've noticed that for a month or so. Just as it started on Google search, exact, verbatim queries, are not being returned in the result set. Google's too big to fail already, as evidenced by the complete inept leadership it has had for the past decade, while the stock keeps going up. Midwit's take would be : "But that's the job of a CEO, to make the stock go up". Nope, what I'm saying is that in spite of the CEO, it is a natural monopoly that is prone to grow. Them missing out the AI wave, which they pretty much created, will go down in history as top idiocracy in companies. With Chrome's forced departure and ChatGPT actually giving you accurate results their hegemony could be threatened. I would have expected these things to be a wake up call for them, but nope, whoever runs the thing recently decided to start enshittifying Gmail now. Great work, pal, destroy whatever's left!