While I agree the AI answer is unnecessary, I'm more angry about how it forces itself into the top of the page, causing the actual search results to be forced further down the page.

There's a term for this; it's called "layout shift". And guess which giant search engine company actually punishes websites which include layout shift? You're damn right, it's Google:

* https://developers.google.com/publisher-tag/guides/minimize-...

* https://web.dev/articles/cls

These big companies supposedly only hire world-class developers; the cream of the crop. And yet they can't even get the basics right. Stuff that I would have avoided in my first Geocities site when I was a kid.

Stupid hypocritical twats.