AI adoption is forced (ranty/rambly)

i have to use google at work (technically, i could use my dear kagi as well, but i try not to mix up my work accounts with the personal ones) and let me tell you, the search results are awful! you cannot easily get the image source if you are trying to look for a picture, clicking on it will take you to the website that hosts the picture (often a vibecoded one with flashy pictures). if you google anything, the AI answer takes up half the page, and the top results are all from big corporations or slop pages. at this point, the free internet (in the sense that you do not pay for it, not in the freedom sense) has been so shittified that people would rather use AI than search. i am not kidding. or like, cheap airlines have no customer support - obviously i will use their chat since there is no other way to get any chance of support? like obviously? i have realized when i was searching for whatsapp on my phone that i had evidently installed a monstrosity called "meta ai" on it (i believe…