>it had become nearly unusable for me and I don't think was that unfounded of an opinion

if ironic is the right word; the (google) search product itself still is. if not even worse.

the 'new' ai mode routinely creates these silly categories that are not what i was looking for and my screen is filled with repetitive ai summaries of articles. it will ingest a source as fact, and then use that fact to create confirmation bias across other articles. it will even use words like "confirm" when it finds a source saying something, even if the source is junk or seo spam. it becomes somewhat impossible to escape the assumptions the model has made, and i have to resort to traditional web search to get diversity in my results.

and while deep research works, its so overly verbose, with no easy way to tone down the wordiness.