[JamesSwift]

> was google search responsible for surfacing correct answers

No, as the article lays out, google hallucinated facts that werent present in source material and so at that point the court found them liable for that.

Previous protections existed for search because it has been argued (and agreed) that they are merely a vessel for showing the content to the user. But when they begin to editorialize and reword the content to show their own version of the content (the AI summary) those protections dont apply even if the AI summary is shown in the same UI as search.