My perception is that Google search is getting markedly worse over time, and many other free search engines seem approximately as useless. I can imagine a time

My perception is that Google search is getting markedly worse over time, and many other free search engines seem approximately as useless. I can imagine a time in the not-so-distant future (or now in some cases) when many users will wish they had bookmarked various interesting sites because they can no longer reliably find them.