I've actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.
I don't know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I'm not googling "correctly" anymore.
I don't know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I'm not googling "correctly" anymore.