I try to be wary of reasoning by analogy (not accusing Goofy or anyone of doing this -- but I know I do it). Google is your local newspaper, if it was heavily invested in researching an emerging and potentially disruptive technology, had the enormous data set required to train it, and the budget to deploy it at scale.

I found the following useful (apologies for cross-posting, but it's relevant here)
wired.com - The race to build a chatgpt powered search engine

I'm not arguing that Google is 'invulnerable' or that language-based interaction with the internet isn't changing in interesting and challenging ways. Some of those ways might be disruptive; others might be pathological. For example, I hadn't considered the headache for established search engines of AI chatbots populating the web with "truthy" explanations and alternative facts.