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Search result quality has been declining on Google since 2019. The web is increasingly turning into closed platform unindexable silos.

These payments aren't towards being the default, it's to ensure that search itself does not get replaced by a different paradigm.

You could argue that it is not a coincidence that the likes of Siri stagnated for so long, while we saw the rise of LLMs effectively resurrecting it elsewhere.

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> The web is increasingly turning into closed platform unindexable silos.

So it is the quality of the open web itself that has been declining, and search is just reflection of that. LLM doesn't solve that, unless the LLM has access across the silos.

LLM training is difficult to audit, and as such good-faith barriers such as robots.txt or API endpoint scraping are all easily ignored. Even ignoring the query side, and just from an indexing perspecrive, you see a considerable advantage.

LLMs (at runtime) and LLM mills (during training) have nothing to gain from restricting themselves to the open web. This is in contrast to Google, who is in the business of selling links to information and not information in itself.

Started declining in 2006 or so with the creative social ranking, removal of boolean search and I could go on for ages. Its my last choice these days.

What's your first and second choices?

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