Most of AI usage could be easily (with a little bit of effort) replaced by just searching for the info you need, but those days search results are so poor that asking AI gets so advantageous for the average user (that don’t care / don’t know about privacy and other costs and risks that come with it)
Do you think they did it on purpose?
The Web became harder to search. Or more accurately, it became harder to return the desired results.
For anything not date-sensitive, add “before:2023” to your query. I’m betting your results will be a lot better.