yankee - 5:14 am on Dec 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Google used to be like a rifle. You could find exactly what you were looking for. Now it's like a shotgun, due to stemming. If you don't know how to search with + (my guess is most people don't), it's much harder to find what you are looking for. In my opinion, google seriously degraded it's value by introducing stemming.

With old google, when you searched for kw1 kw2 you found exactly what you were looking for. Now, this same search will return results about kw2 that have very little to do with kw1. It's amazes me how google claims they have improved their search engine, when reality is they made it much worse!