I think you're way off base here. Based on the story linked, this event was the result of a situation occurring that google engineers did not anticipate. It's

I think you're way off base here. Based on the story linked, this event was the result of a situation occurring that google engineers did not anticipate. It's just an edge case that was not handled properly. There's nothing "AI specific" about that. Clearly google is going to continue using algorithms to rank pages, and clearly this will sometimes return bad results.