> Googles entire business model is built around search. They have augmented search with AI

No, it’s that Google Search doesn’t find anything anymore. You write a class name—it doesn’t index those anymore. So you revert to asking it a question about your bug, it’s no AI-fied enough. Perplexity and ChatGPT find what Google chose to stop indexing.

Google may be built around advertising, but certainly not around Search.