This was really interesting. Thank you for sharing it here!
Just wanted to share this good bit in the comments here:
I hope that this is good news. The biggest strengths of the Internet are its decentralisation and egalitarianism, and the monopoly of Google search has been the total opposite of those. I am happy to see that other search engines are growing in popularity and I hope this trend will continue. Web search should be as it says on the tin, search providing links to websites, and replacing links with an AI generated summary with a high chance of malforming their content is just not the right way, dangerous for the openness and freedom of the web.
This was really interesting. Thank you for sharing it here!
Just wanted to share this good bit in the comments here: