It's funny, we used to go to Dogpile or Jeeves when Yahoo's results were crap and you couldnt be bothered to go search Lycos, Altavista and dozen others (and al

It's funny, we used to go to Dogpile or Jeeves when Yahoo's results were crap and you couldnt be bothered to go search Lycos, Altavista and dozen others (and all the hyper-specialized ones). Then Google hit the scene and it gave equal or better results than the aggregators. Now Google themselves gives dodgy or inconsistent results that incentivize one to look elsewhere, but I don't think it is entirely their fault-- charlatans can crank out chum content faster than it can be analyzed and indexed. Google is doing the best the can...they have their own financial interests but they happen to align with ensuring people trust their results. The scale and nature of the web these days is very different than it was in '96. There was a competing engine popping up every year-- an endless cycle of "___ sucks, use ___ instead." But I haven't heard of anything other than Google and DDG since Cuil failed.