This piece has a click bait title and focuses exclusively on the last week of tech-news. IMO the answer to the clickbait title is still yes, but the reasons lie in the last 5 years of stagnation and extend far beyond the use of AI in search/information retrieval. Google is a massive company that does a lot more than Search. The simple problem is that Google as a company is languishing without purpose. The incentives do not line up for attention to detail, product excellence or ground breaking tech. Instead they now have a massive sprawling enterprise that is dominated by politics over products.