I’d rather use every LLM that can search the web (including whatever local model I’m currently running on my MacBook) over Google. I also prefer the results from Kagi (which I generally use), DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia.

I still don’t think a company with at least one touch point on such a high percentage on web usage should be allowed to have one of 2 mobile OSs that control that market, the most popular browser, the most popular search engine, the top video site (that’s also a massive social network), and a huge business placing ads on 3rd party sites.

Any two of these should be cause for concern, but we are well beyond the point that Google’s continued existence as a single entity is hugely problematic.