Searches, especially at 2am Eastern (a favourite time for night owls to work) take upwards of 10 to 15 seconds to return. Yet these are also peppered with endless capchas, which sometimes require a checkbox but also 'what is a car', and 'is that a bike' nonsense.

Yet we've seen over and over again, how LLMs can easily pass these tests. I feel what I'm seeing here is more of Google's collapse. Creating horrible search experiences for humans, without actually resolving any possible issues they're having with bots. And it wouldn't be so bad, except these are repeatedly shown to the end user. Each search. With slow results, each search.

What used to be beautiful, a sub second result, is now and endless break in workflow. And you know what Google? If I'm going to be handed this, why would I think "Gee, Google is exceptionally competent, I should use Gemini!".

No. I see a company barely able to manage its infra. I see, frankly, pathetic response times. I see an inability for a company which has the assets, and personnel, incapable of resolving immensely simple issues. So why on Earth would I trust an LLM from a company that's devolving into "the screw up king".