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The Empire Strikes Back: Why the World is Returning to Google

Corporate history will likely divide the modern technology era into two distinct epochs: Before November 30, 2022 and After . That was the fateful day OpenAI dropped ChatGPT on an unsuspecting world, sparking a wave of existential panic across Silicon Valley. For Google, it triggered an internal "Code Red." Their hastily rushed response, Bard , landed with a thud. Meanwhile, agile disruptors like Perplexity arrived like search engines on steroids, and traditional browser traffic patterns wobbled as millions of users started querying chatbots instead of typing URLs into Chrome or Safari. The only entity sitting back, sipping champagne, and watching its stock price orbit the moon was NVIDIA . Jensen Huang ’s hardware empire had bet heavily on artificial intelligence years before it was fashionable, and suddenly, every tech giant was scrambling to buy every GPU in existence. Fast forward to today, and the script has flipped completely. The panic room has relocated. Now, Ope...