And yet their search product results are declining rapidly in terms of quality. So much so that people in HN report having to write "reddit" at the end of their

And yet their search product results are declining rapidly in terms of quality. So much so that people in HN report having to write "reddit" at the end of their queries to get reasonably interesting results. Sure HN notices this first, but for sure the "regular people" are not far behind. Still, there are no good alternatives -- yet. You can bet if Google is the new Altavista, then the new Google is just over the Horizon waiting to steal their ad revenue...