BigDave - 8:41 pm on Feb 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hawkgirl,

That is what I have been saying all along. While some areas with each update get screwed up, the vast majority of searches produce good results.

I am especially dubious of complaints about how "all of google is going downhill" when the only examples that people use start with "in my area".

Well in my area the SERPs are good. In the areas I choose to search in the SERPs are almost always good. I have to do searches in areas that I just don't care about, either professionally or personally, (travel, gambling, real estate) before I get bad results. And in most of those cases I can get past the bad results by tweaking my search a little bit.

I'll believe the doom and gloom stories about google when I start seeing more traffic from other search engines.