This happened the moment the company started rolling out its new Gemini 3 AI model inside of Google Search. Google calls the integration an upgrade. But it's really the beginning of the end of the search engine as we've known it for the past twenty-five years. And here's the thing... Google didn't choose to make this change. Our changing search habits forced it to happen.
The biggest change isn't that other tools have vanished. It's that ChatGPT has become the new front door to information. Within months of its introduction on Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT had 100 million weekly users. By late 2025, that figure had grown to 800 million. That makes it one of the most widely used consumer technologies on the planet. Surveys show that this use isn't just curiosity - it reflects a real change in behavior.