People are sad over google demise, but we have more tools than before, and easily we can mitigate.
- there are other search engines, like kagi
- we have AI, chatgpt, which some people find use for. I use it to ask general questions about programming problem solving and it often helps me. I do not know every language, and when I needed to write browser extension it saved me a lot of time
- bookmarking software. I wrote my own self-hosted software [1], with search ability. I do not have to 'research' everything I find interesting. Google will not bury inconvenient news anymore, or filter it
I think we need is adapt. When Google entered, Yahoo was not able to change. IBM was not able to change. Old tech is replaced by new solutions. We need to reconsider how to find things online.