Of course Google can make money in the same way, but my point is that any reasonable price of what people would pay for a ChatGPT-like-service (which has to be competitive, as it can be replicated by others and the costs aren't that high) is far less than what Google can currently earn from the same queries through ads.

Like, currently a Google competitor like Bing or DuckDuckGo is still sending lots of money to Google because they redirect users to websites showing Google ads. A non-Google ChatGPT pays Google nothing.

What do you base this on? Customizable user-tailored ads through natural language would make even more money arguably and Google is uniquely positioned to do it.

Also consider that paying even a dollar a month for a service will result in the addressable market going down orders of magnitude. Apple is pretty much the only company in existence that is able to make people pay so much on luxuries like that.