While this might be true to some extend, Google screwed the pooch long before AI by selling out to their marketing team over user interests and satisfaction.
This might be something of a technicality but I doubt it was their marketing team who is at fault. If it’s over-monetization of search results that you have a problem with as I do, it’s more likely to have been product leaders with aggressive monetization targets.
Yup, just like Boeing ditched the leadership steeped in engineering for leadership steeped in Excel.
Racing over each other to win the Jack Welch Corporate Destruction Award.