Iguana - 10:40 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

When I look at the results I see very bad results - irrelevant in fact on 3 word searches. Coupled with the practical loss of many sites (maybe minor sites, just PR5) this is worrying.

My searching interest (and my website interest) is narrow (music) but I really think current results are rubbish. If I search for anything beyond 'bandname' or 'bandname lyrics' then I just get the same ecommerce/big affiliate sites (epinions/ rateyourmusic/ kelkoo/ metacritic/ launch) with individual album pages or band pages. Compared to Yahoo/Teoma this is very poor.

I remember a friend telling me about 3 years ago that he thought the 'amateur' had about 2 years to prosper before the big boys took it all over - it looks like he was right as far as Google was concerned but just 1 year out.