I think Google knows search is over and that they know AI will bring something new to that game. So they are perhaps maintaining and not pouring too much into making the product better.
it is that they are making it steadily worse, to make more and more profits.
don't ask me for proof, or why or how, because I won't answer, because that's a huge rabbit hole, but with tons of proof right here on hn, as well as on the rest of the net.
just ... google for it.
/irony intended
>but with tons of proof right here on hn
less than 24 hours after I said that, hot off the hn press, comes:
Google Loses DOJ Antirust Suit Over Search Engine on Phones:
I bet it's the latter.