[KarlInOhio]

Even worse for them, this will make people question their search results in general. If people doubt the search results they will start looking at multiple search engines, compare results and aggregate them. Before Google became the predominant search engine you had to know which search engines were good for different topics and there were aggregation sites which would pass your search to multiple search engines and combine results.

This could be Google's "MySpace" moment.

[pepsi_junkie]

This could be Google's "MySpace" moment.

I think you are right, they are in danger because AI is the new tech boom and everyone is jumping in and they just belly flopped. First impressions are important and them failing on such an epic level when a startups like OpenAI and Midjourney are dominating their respective AI domains and established companies like Microsoft (in part through their ownership stake in OpenAI but also development tools and things like that) and ... believe it or not ... Facebook / Meta (one of the leaders in open source models, hard to believe but they are) are quietly making big moves.

Meanwhile google is focused on solving the problem that vikings and nazis weren't diverse enough. Ho hum, I look forward to the post-Google world.