They have.
In the last few weeks Google has added an "AI Mode" to search which does really well for questions like: "What was the recent paper that showed that people are strongly alienated when social movements appeal to the legacy of the civil rights movement?" or "What was the Frederick Pohl story about people who could take over your body?"
It used to be that I was always remembering a paper I saw that came to some significant conclusion but had to work pretty hard to find it, Google now answers questions like that highly reliably.
