>Google was originally and for many years extremely elegant in it’s simplicity. The reason I started using Google (and made it my home page) over 20 years ago

>Google was originally and for many years extremely elegant in it’s simplicity. The reason I started using Google (and made it my home page) over 20 years ago wasn't because of the quality of their searches, but because their home page was a plain white page that loaded instantly (in contrast to Alta Vista and other search engines that were loaded down with all sorts of animations and advertisements that took forever to load). Even after I got broadband I stuck with Google for many years because their searches were clearly the best. In the last few years (especially the last year), their search quality has fallen off a cliff and there is just no compelling reason to stick with them.