If I had a dollar every time someone on the Internet announced Google's demise I would be very happy. Also, to think that AI-enabled search will deliver us fro

If I had a dollar every time someone on the Internet announced Google's demise I would be very happy. Also, to think that AI-enabled search will deliver us from ads is naive. SEO firms talk and pitch about AI constantly, either to push brands inside chat responses, or, yes, to taint public datasets with pointless articles whose only purpose is to do product placement. I very much doubt Google is about to go down; but if it does go down, we will miss it.