Does anybody else feel that Google has been figured out now, and that they are now just applying patches to a system that is fundamentally broken (in the same w

Does anybody else feel that Google has been figured out now, and that they are now just applying patches to a system that is fundamentally broken (in the same way Excite and AV did)? I don't. I think they do a much better job of actively improving their offering. No matter what the system is, someone will always try to game it. Even if the people running the system are very smart and try very hard, the smart gamers will (briefly) succeed. That's ok, though - it pushes the people running the system to work harder to improve it. It really is in Google's best interest (IMO) to return great search results, so I think they'll continue to improve what they do.