Similar experience. Whenever I have questions where I know what answer should be (i.e. errors, how to do something etc, ELI5) I will use LLMs. When I use google now I almost never use the AI overview because I am almost exclusively trying to discover something that I want from a source. There's also a whole interesting category of search called navigational queries where there is low entropy (and thus ad value) when someone just goes to google to search espn.com, because they will almost always not explore. I do not understand why people would use perplexity or anything over just chatgpt,claude etc unless some price thing - because it occupies this middle latent space of search I don't find useful.