Yep, not disagreeing. My point is that a short term pursuit of money over at least a reasonable quality of search will destroy what they have built very quickly

Yep, not disagreeing. My point is that a short term pursuit of money over at least a reasonable quality of search will destroy what they have built very quickly if quality gets low enough to make it easy for an upstart rival to have obviously better search results. And the evidence for that is in the history of their own rise to search dominance.,