Where in the world did you get this from?

This is not true, the internet gradually became a place where you couldn't look up how to hack the government as search stopped being grep for the web, and became guided view into corporate directory.

This corresponded with a ton of search engines becoming two search engines, one rarely used.

How is your comment different than my comment?

I was not talking about its initial state nor the gradual change, but about the end state (when LLMs started becoming a thing).