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The Death of Search and the Rise of the LLM Web: What It Means for B2B Demand

Google became so synonymous in the last 20 years that it became a verb. It’s precipitous collapse in referring traffic has changed the B2B game overnight

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Mike Harty
Aug 28, 2025
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For twenty years, the internet’s oxygen supply has been search. Google sat at the center of the content web, and the mechanics were simple: publishers fed Google content, buyers searched, and B2B vendors built engines to intercept early research queries.

Out of it came a $300 billion ad business and a machine that spawned alphabet, and everything that ca…

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