Obviously when users start bailing, the best answer is to make the service worse and worse for those who remain to make up the difference.

Duckduckgonoai works fine for me for general searches.

More ads. That will fix the issue.

https://google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s

I still think old Google gives me the best results, so I set my browser's default search it this.

When combined with ublock - It gives no suggestions, no ads, no LLM slop. Just plain results like the old days.

Eventually they'll get rid of it, but for now. It works great.