Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing.
They don’t care about us that day they we have a problem and the solution is in a now defunct site. That doesn’t generate revenue. “When People search on Google they need to find what they need on a click on the ads”, the shareholders are saying
Honestly, I hope it’s around long enough. Right now it’s very good and rapidly improving. Enshittification by definition only happens when a service is large enough and successful enough. Until that happens, I’m going to keep using what for me is the best search option.
Let’s face it. Search is a fundamental necessity of the internet. How many models can functionally work?
It could be free for the user, but supported by ads. We’ve seen how that works. Maybe it’s run its course.
It could be ad-free and paid for by users. The competitive incentive at least is to give users the best possible experience.
It could be entirely free and provided as a utility. Literally no one is asking for a government run Internet.
Maybe there’s some futuristic solution like an Open Source distributed network in which users run the search themselves. As far as I know nobody has come up with a search that doesn’t require a massive database with enormous costs.