g1smd - 12:32 am on May 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

For me, the third set is 72.14.207.99 and family. These first appeared just a few weeks ago on one DC and moved to the 72 a few days later.

These results are VERY different. This is the biggest change I have seen in Google results in at least 5 years of looking. I want to start calling this an update.

The results are utterly awful. There is no "exact match" for "quoted searches" any more, either.

Some of the searches I do, now have thousands of results, rather than dozens, but none of the results actually fit the search query.

Many SERPs are stuffed full of supplementals. Some are 100% supplemental results.

Some sites have lost 99% of their indexed pages.

Many cache dates go back to 2004 January.

[edited by: g1smd at 12:36 am (utc) on May 3, 2006]