I for one appreciate all of the high profile blog posts about Google's recent search quality. Google basically did with search what Microsoft did with IE6. On

I for one appreciate all of the high profile blog posts about Google's recent search quality. Google basically did with search what Microsoft did with IE6. Once they had dominated the market, they figured "Well, that's that, let's make some other cool stuff", and have gone on to enter into all kinds of unrelated markets instead of improving search at all. If you look at improvements to Google's search from say 2004-2010 there is almost nothing new. Finally once they got a little bit of competition from Bing, we are seeing some new things like instant search, and they are addressing search quality, adding new features etc...