yetanotheruser - 3:45 pm on Jan 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

> A thread for objective analysis of SERPs you follow as a user, not SERPs you follow as a website owner...

I won't go into how our sites are performing - same as a'bdy I guess, some up/some down.. but as a google-user I have to agree with dotme...

When I _use_ google it usually to track down docs or throw an error-line into it. Maybe I'm wrong but I get the distinct impression the results in this area really have dropped and it has become very frustrating. Notwithstanding the fact that I keep seeing what I would consider major bugs - no snippets on results, 100% foreign language results, etc..

I haven't switched to AV just yet, but I am having to use more advanced searches to force it to do what I want - why on earth sites like perl.apache.org seem to have been penalised for instance I cannot fathom!

For all the good intentions I'm sure Google had when they came out with the Florida algo it's a pitty they seem to have lost sight of the things they were good at - finding the credible results you're looking for!

TTFN, :)