gmajor's Journal: Signs of the end (of google)?

While searching for some information yesterday, I used Google. Exactly like I've been doing for the past several years.

Only this time, I couldn't find what I was looking for in the first 5 pages of results.

Advertisements and more advertisements. False hits. Frustration.

So I went to Altavista. And I found what I needed in the very first result, with the same query.

Flashback to Yahoo circa 1996, when I used Yahoo Search religously. Although I don't use Yahoo Search anymore, I still frequently visit its maps, yellow pages, and mail services. Hopefully Google will continue to improve upon its search service - otherwise I may only use Google for GMail and Froogle (and maybe the cool new Google Maps).

With MSN Search entering the scene, suddenly Google does not looks so impenetrable.

Is google suffering from IE syndrome?

[tod_miller]

People target the biggest player, and in this case a lot has been published about its linking system, so many people still rather spend $$$ on labour-time to achieve some google rankings with very wierd websites, than pay for an ad and have a normal sane usable website.

Also, these 'domain parking' link pools are also very annoying. And bloggers who try very hard to pimp themselves on google. baaaah.