The new ChatGPT clones from Google and Microsoft are going to destroy online search

This week Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, announced that his company's internet search engine -- the way the vast majority of humans interact with a near-total corpus of human knowledge -- is about to change. Enter a query, and you'll get more than pages and pages of links, along with a few suggested answers. Now you'll get an assist from artificial intelligence. "Soon," a Google blog post under Pichai's byline declared, "you'll see AI-powered features in Search that distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats, so you can quickly understand the big picture and learn more from the web." A chatbot named Bard will deliver search results in complete sentences, as a human might.