More than two decades Google Search ruled the web; then came ChatGPT

Google Search currently processes almost 200,000 queries each secondt,

generating more than $198 billion in revenue in 2024, almost 60% of Alphabet’s annual sales.

Then in 2022, OpenAI introduced something new.

Within the past several years blog posts began appearing about the declining quality of Google Search.

“People have high expectations for search and what it does for them,” says Pandu Nayak, Google’s chief search scientist.

“And when it delivers on those high expectations, they don’t notice it because it’s just working the way it should.”

Bloomberg 24 March 2025

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