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No but once ChatGPT starts threatening Google's revenue model, maybe they will start putting effort into improving their drastically deteriorating search engine.

they need to win search share to threaten Google's revenue model: take traffic from google.com, so google will sell ads. Going to ads busyness is not necessary for this.

But why is that good for me?

Why do I care if Google succeeds or dies?

If anything I want them to die for ad infested they've made the internet. I don't want ads in either chatGPT or Google Search.

Or search, Youtube, chrome and android could all see their enshittification ramped up, which might not be the outcome you want.

People want whatever they searched for. If the ads provide that, then sure. That's why Google and Meta are the size that they are...

Most of the time I don’t search for products so there is nothing I want to buy.

Google is the size it is due to monopoly power.

I don't want ads when I search.

I don't want ads. But I can't deny that ads are the only business model with a chance of scaling to compete with Google.

If that's what they want to do in this space, which is not a given.

Plenty of times the answer is yes.