I think this is mainly a symptom of poor alignment between search engines and their customers. ChatGPT works well now but the plan there seems to be to monetize

I think this is mainly a symptom of poor alignment between search engines and their customers. ChatGPT works well now but the plan there seems to be to monetize search-like queries. I fear it won't be long until chat AI agents using this model bring us back to the same frustrations we have today with Google et all. There is some room for optimism, though. There's been a rise in smaller search engines with different funding models that are more aligned with user needs. Kagi is the only one that comes to mind (I use it), but I'm sure there are others.