> Advertisers on Google should be paying a lot less than they were a year ago. I wonder how the Google Search page traffic has been affected by the recent AI s

> Advertisers on Google should be paying a lot less than they were a year ago. I wonder how the Google Search page traffic has been affected by the recent AI surge. Very anecdotally, of course, but in my social circle (middle-class urban Romanians in their late 30s and early 40s) almost everyone I know has replaced a phrase like "I googled it and I found this and this and this" to "I chatGPT-ed and I found this and this and this" (where "chatGPT" can also be sometimes replaced by Claude and, not that often, by Gemini).