Is google getting worse?

I think Google is nice for searching, sometimes it's not very good for using, but I still think its advantage is more than disadvantage.

 

I don't think so, Google is always best, I always use google, no any other search engine gives result like google..

 

I think spam and webmasters linking is the problem. Google and other search engines rely too much on links, that's why their search results are getting clogged up.

 

I agree. Also I think google does getting worse 'cause SEO is getting more available to everyone. Though the difference among the search engines is still huge in the favor of Google.

I think we are before a major update in Google's ranking algorithm; I would say it will happen in the next 12-18 months.

 

All we know that it's not hard to manipulate SE results since they run some automated algorithms and crawlers. Their workers are machines not humans.

I think that directories like yahoo, dmoz, business.com, etc. displays much better results than search engines since their results are manually edited.
For example, if I want to buy a UK hosting, I can't trust google, yahoo, bing, etc.

 

Instant search isn't going away but I despise it and it hasn't affected my traffic at all.

 

quality's not amazing, but it's still the best there is currently.

 

If Bing is reducing itself to copying Google results then I'd guess that Google are doing a pretty good job.

 

No and you might have known that Bing is just copying Google's results. There is no search engine better than Google so far.