A long time ago, a man who used to work at Google warned that computers with artificial intelligence (AI) could make Google's main way of making money, which is searching the internet, not as important. He said this would happen very soon or maybe even faster than he thought. Now, people see that Google made some mistakes with their AI chatbot and they think it shows that Google might be worried about AI taking over their search engine. Read from source...

1. The article title is misleading and sensationalized. It implies that only an ex-employee predicted the threat of AI to Google's search engine, while in reality, many experts and researchers have been warning about this for years.
2. The author uses vague terms like "near inevitable" and "far outpacing traditional methods" without providing any concrete evidence or data to support these claims.
3. The article focuses too much on the recent fiasco with Gemini AI chatbot, which is only one example of Google's struggle with AI, while ignoring other factors that contribute to the threat, such as the rise of new search engines like Perplexity AI and ChatGPT.
4. The author does not mention any potential solutions or strategies that Google could adopt to mitigate the impact of AI on its search engine business model.