What is the moat of the Google Search? To me the LLM is the first and the only disruptor so far of the Search.

It used to be their high search quality, difficult to replicate technology. Now they don't have one.

Well, Google’s willingness to pay potential competitors tens of billions of dollars per year to disincentivize developing a competing search engine is kind of a moat.

Their moat is lock-in across services now. People are "Google" users not just "web search" users.

Google’s moat is eroding (filling?), but over the years it shifted from best product/tech to best brand.

Google is still good enough for most searches. Say finding web page of restaurant or some cursory information on popular topic.

I suppose competitor would have to be really good on those times most users need something better.

So it is the brand and familiarity. It would need to get really bad even on most basic things to be replaced.

muscle memory