Indeed.

Not only is search revenue growing, but it is growing at an accelerating rate.

At the same time, operating margins are expanding.

I don't know the name of the logical fallacy where someone personally uses an LLM instead of Google Search and then infers that the search business is dying, without ever reading a financial statement.

Indeed. Money over everything. It is absurd to complain about decreasing quality of a product that makes increasing money for increasingly rich people (thus, by definition, better).

There is probably a lag time before advertisers give up on AdSense.

A lot of corporate ad spend is already planned, and Google can adjust the costs up as much as they like. They hold the lever.