I've been noticing how Google is getting worse than ever just by doing research on my site in SERPs. There's a really competitive keyword that I'm trying to rank for for a very long time, and I'm doing it by the book. In the meantime, some absolute shit site made it on google page 1 for this term, and it's a fellow competitor with a Wordpress site and spun articles that don't even read correctly, filled with Adsense. His domain name wasn't even more than half a year old, either... I was really so angry at Google for giving it page 1 placement.