> It's a sad decline from 10+ years ago when I'd type a half-formed thought into the search box and I'd get the answer. Incidentally the first algorithm update

> It's a sad decline from 10+ years ago when I'd type a half-formed thought into the search box and I'd get the answer. Incidentally the first algorithm updates to 'combat spam' came around by then, starting with 'Penguin'. They were supposed to cut the spammy sites from search. All that they did ended up being removing small sites, blogs and ecommerce businesses from search results for the benefit of mega companies at the cost of search quality...