ooo! i love google because their mission is to get all information available to end user at user's desktop.. i love google's hard work and lots tools.. they always give us great tools.. only one thing i really dont like is "search" actully when u search for a subject.. you will get lots other unrelated websites too.. google give more weight to link building.. actully weight should be given to content and titles and subjects [this is my person opinion] same way, i dont know much but yahoo had fine search, but later they changes search criterias.. or something like that.. now you are not getting excat results there also.. dont know if they are also following google
I don't think any of us think Google's search engine damaged anything. It's their Adsense that caused the proliferation of junk sites designed only to serve ads. Again, though, I'd rather have it than not. I can only hope that Google will get better at weeding out the spammish sites - I know that's very hard to do.