One strange coincidence with the emergence of ChatGPT is that at almost the exact same time, Google became practically unusable as a search engine. Like at least an order of magnitude worse.

People used to use Google the same way they use ChatGPT. They would ask a question in plain English, and get sent back a list of relevant links to blog posts, articles, stack overflow, or whatever that had answers to their questions, including example code.

Sometimes that code or information was outdated or completely wrong and sometimes it was too basic to be useful, or just the code-generated docs.

Google has been getting gradually worse over the years due to spam, algorithm gaming, and ads, but circa late November 2022 it became practically worthless.