Returning text results in response to queries will continue to decline in favor of returning answers and synthesized responses directly. I don't want Google to point me to a page that contains the answer somewhere, when it could provide me an even better summary based on thousands of related pages it has read.
Right but the main flaw with Google is people increasingly dont trust the result whether it is synthesized or not. And Google is in the adversarial position of wanting to censor certain answers as well as present answers that maximize their own revenue. An answer (like video based TikTok), will arise and crush them eventually.
