This article focuses on the learning aspect of The Bitter Lesson. But The Bitter Lesson is about both search and learning.
This article cites Leela, the chess program, as an example of the Bitter Lesson, as it learns chess using a general method. The article then goes on to cite Stockfish as a counterexample, because it uses human-written heuristics to perform search. However, as you add compute to Stockfish's search, or spend time optimizing compute-expenditure-per-position, Stockfish gets better. Stockfish isn't a counterexample, search is still a part of The Bitter Lesson!
This article cites Leela, the chess program, as an example of the Bitter Lesson, as it learns chess using a general method. The article then goes on to cite Stockfish as a counterexample, because it uses human-written heuristics to perform search. However, as you add compute to Stockfish's search, or spend time optimizing compute-expenditure-per-position, Stockfish gets better. Stockfish isn't a counterexample, search is still a part of The Bitter Lesson!