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AI absolutely is the new search but only because the major search engines normal people use have completely destroyed their core products functionality for advertising revenue
AI will likely follow suit. In 5-10 years chatgpt or bard or whatever will give you a completely and obviously biased response promoting a product or service with a sponsored interstitial that is labeled as sponsored before you get the answer to make it seem like the obviously biased answer isn’t a gamed response
months
DDG isn't all that private but it does have good results
It uses Bing results and their results are marginally better. Search is as bad as 30 years ago.
Not in my experience
It is clean and gets the results I need. Maybe I'm just lucky but it is no were near as bad as 30 years ago