"The largest tech companies are investing so much capital in A.I. infrastructure chips, data centers, intensively trained models that they must make the bet pay off, one way or another."

It sounds like it's working at least with respect to this author

He seems to have no alternaative but to keep feeding training data to a chatbot

I am still using traditional search, done from the command line

No browser, no Javascript, no cookies, certainly no chatbot

There's even way to still get "10 blue links" from Google, "hiding" in plain sight, though I expect it will be shut off eventually

"But I would really prefer if Search just worked the way it did in the first place."

It's possible but the user might have to stop using Google and Anthropic (Google is an investor)

I think this author like so many other "tech" journalists will go whichever way the wind blows, whilst making futile complaints into the ether

And the Silicon Valley companies know it