>Do you need to open an entire website to learn how to sort an array in JavaScript with a lambda function?

That's exactly what Google is implying, isn't it?

By placing a redirect to an LLM at the top, and following it with bad search results, Google is saying "don't bother with the web, asking an LLM is better".

It is a very shortsighted thing to say, as a company whose moat and expertise is search. Particularly so when LLMs aren't yet proved to be a viable path to profit and there are other players in the game.