janejanejane - 9:28 pm on Feb 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

I think when people state that there is a decline in the quality of Google search results "in their area", its because this is their area of expertise, they watch serps change on a daily basis, see the nuances.

When countless posts from different people in different areas echo eachother, one conculsion you may be able to draw is a general universality and conformity in the decline of quality.

That is not to say Google is useless. Far from it. It is just less useful than it was and requires more from the user in unearthing quality results.