All of this assumes that the internet has not changed in the last ten years. It has. It’s much spammier, SEO garbage is ubiquitous, and popups and cookie consent banners make it feel like early 2000s.

There was a brief period of time where Google was dominant where adblockers also worked and anyone smart enough to download chrome had a great experience. It’s not like that anymore and people are blaming Google.

Feature were stripped from Google Image Search because of a lawsuit [1]. Yandex, Bing and others can offer a better image search because they are not big/important enough to sue in the US search engine market. If Google were to be dethroned, the company that would take over its current dominant position would also be sued and would likely have to make the same changes.

[1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-googl...

Parrots, that word was coined by the fired Google AI ethics researcher. It was intended to disparage large language models, but when did parrots cause such a stir? It didn't age well, sounds less and less convincing by the day.