I find the quality of Google Search data to degrade with the artificial intelligence system in place. In the old times, the Google search relied on a 'highly cited' webpage information, where the actual human beings provided the actual advices. That is, the experts in the field (or perhaps just smart ordinary people with experience) expressed opinions. The problem with artificial intelligence is, its advices are given as based on 'plausible looking' or nearly 'linguistic' arguments, which are often wrong. For example, as I was fixing the laundry dryer with the sensor light blinking, the AI was consistently suggesting me to check if the sensor was broken and needed replacement. The point is, the humidity sensor cannot get broken. It has no moving parts and no electronics. After some pain and trial and error attempts, I was able to find out that the door switch was broken. As the dryer was trying to start, it sensed the 'open door' and was stuck in the 'sensing' mode.
My thought is, in this case the AI not only did not help, but was clearly harmful. It diluted the true expert-based information on the web (which may have existed) with trivial, primitive, basic, non-intelligent guesses. As there is no factual knowledge behind it, it generates a lot of wasted effort. It also dilutes the information on the web with plausible, nice-flowing bullshit.
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