assasin - 10:10 pm on Jan 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm only just begining to take an interest in the behind the scenes behaviour of serach engines, Google in particular. Since november in fact, well after Florida.

But I too have become frustrated by the results I am getting with Google. As AnneJ said, if I wanted a spammy link farm to show me links to match my query, I'd have keyed my search into a spammy link farm.

I almost never click on adwords, but recently I have started doing so because they are now the only really relevant results Google returns.

Franky I don't give two hoots if a site exploited Google to get to a top 10 rank as long as they give me what I wanted, which they were doing until this autumn.

Still, much as I liked google, I have had no qualms switching to Inktomi. I'll give Google a chance, I have their toolbar instlled, but they'd better get it fixed or they're going to go the way of Alta Vista.

I'm surprised MSN and Inktomi haven't been flooding the news channels with "Is Google broken" propoganda.