Zeberdee - 9:52 pm on Feb 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

"Google's improvement over the past couple months is easily seen when searching for information."

But that is all we ever search for! For us, we used to get pages returned which at least covered the topic in hand. Now we just find inner pages of large commercial type directories and portals. This is the reverse of what you say.

Granted, we are just ingorant joe surfers seeking information and I agree we are not trained in the nuance of effective search. Google used to satisfy our needs, but doesn't anymore, or at least not as well as Altavista. I am certainly not surprised at the comment above from Ian Turner about logs and trends.