But what Google is doing, is like what Firefox did when Chrome came out. Panicking.

Panicking, and therefore making horrible design and product choices.

Google has made their main search engine output utter and complete junk. It's just terrible. If they didn't have 'web' search, I'd never be able to use it.

In almost every search for the last month, normal search results in horrible matches. Switch to web? Bam! First result.

Not web? The same perfect result might be 3 or 4 pages deep. If that.

(I am comparing web results in both cases, and ignoring the also broken 80% of the pages of AI junk.)

In an attempt to compete, they're literally driving people to use ChatGPT for search in droves.

They could compete, and do so without this panicky disaster of a response.