Sadly, I think you are right but like my Dad always told me, Every Dog Has its Day!! You are Veteran here and I'm sure that eveyone can tell that I am just very upset about the recent activities but its like this to me so far: Google does so many un-scrupulous things and yet they have the guts to give their site a PR10 like it really matters!! Who decides there score, the Algos?? Yeah Right!! I thought that PR was determined partly by the valuable content that the site has, well I guess if you can consider Sex, Child Porn, Racial, The Anarchy Cookbook, and many other types of Top Grade Content, then Google deserves the 10 that they give their search!!! And 1 more thing that really cracks me up and totally shows you that Google is so un-just: If you look at the Matt Cutts Blog, every article in the thing has live text links about Google Google Google!! And in some cases there are up to 12-15 links in a single article. Further, you will find businesses linked and testimonials which is OK but then when they take a couple of my blogs for doing the same thing as well as many other people, which they did, I start to get a liitle upset when I see that the Matt Cutts Blog has a PR7 which is totally promoting Google!!! If I promote Google soley, will they make me a PR, not that I will do that of course but I'll bet you that they would!! Is that cool or what??? Bottom line, Google is playing everyone for chumps and to benefit their pockets and stock holders!!! And to think I backed them because I thought that they were the new trend!!! Right!!!! We just played into their hands and created a Monster is all in my opinion!!!
If you were to add a "Non of the Above" to your Poll, thats what I would have voted on. Love it or hate it - Google is tops when it comes to Search Engines. In DP I guess we are all looking at Google from a webmaster point of view. Sometimes, its worth taking a step back, and appreciating Google doing what they are doing in this update from a user's point of view.
It is a joke. It is almost impossible to quit using Google, especially in other part of the world besides USA.
If I am searching for a information I would trust Google as it gives relevant results when compared to yahoo and MSN So it is impossible to quit google