Totally. Google has it locked up as far as profitability goes but the user experience has a long ways to go. Until I can spawn off a search to find the cheapes

Totally. Google has it locked up as far as profitability goes but the user experience has a long ways to go. Until I can spawn off a search to find the cheapest VPS host, returned with a spec sheet of every offering alongside speed tests of five sites hosted on each, we're not even in the ballpark. Search should be able to solve problems all the way through, not just offer possible resources that may or may not help in your hunt for a solution. Which is, as you say, AI-hard/a mindbogglingly batshit crazy undertaking. Which, in turn, means that someone will eventually succeed and make a lot of money doing so.