Everything these AIs are great at are a bad fit for search. Some fool anxiously raced to spend a ton of money on this and I bet there was a chorus of engineers, designers, and product people who were asking, “what the heck do you want us to do with this?!”
It’s shiny and powerful and it kinda looks like it can give you answers to stuff, so we must have one and shove it into our product as fast as possible!
Once the dust settles and Microsoft and Google have successfully shipped a somewhat helpful but completely brain dead husk, our attention will be wherever the empowered, raw, learning, unforgetting AIs hang out.