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Over the past few months I have noticed that Google seems to suck. Relevant search result are way past a bunch of spam and other stuff. If you don't spell your search terms exactly, you don't get the results you are looking for, which years ago may have seemed like an unreasonable beef but today you can spell Richard Nixon N-C-K-S-O-N and get the result you are looking for. A search for “why does Google suck lately?” returns 2,390,000 results, so it's not my imagination. And, in those results I have heard everything from Google has changed their algorithm to match things that I am supposed to care about to sabotage instigated by Microsoft to boost Bing's user numbers to spammers that have figured out how to beat Google at the optimization game. Some have suggested that changes were made to boost add revenue in order to send more money back to Google's shareholders. Google has apparently taken on a lot of extravagant projects in recent years that have hurt their bottom line from networking balloons over Africa to God knows what. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out, however, that if you made your money as a search engine, you should probably keep that engine running smoothly if you want to stay in business. Frankly, I don't care what it(the source of the problem) is. I like Google, but it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that should be able to figure out and fix widely recognized problems as they arise. Someone is obviously asleep at the switch. The simple evidence for this is the fact that the once unparalleled word spelling intuition at the site has all but ceased to exist for less commonly used words and names. Which, can't be anything else but a programming issue at Google. To make matters worse, feedback from Google seems defensive and not helpful. We’re not idiots! Your engineers have obviously altered the Google formula and now you suck! It's not our imagination. Google made its mark on the world as a formidable research tool. If that most basic reason to use your product evaporates, your shareholders may really have something to complain about in the not too distant future.
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4:37 PM PT: Thanks for the insightful comments everyone!
Point of clarification: Google seemed to function better on many levels in the not too distant past. It seemed to have better intuition about what I was looking for, spelling was not as much of an issue as it is now. I'm a shitty speller, what can I say?