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My experience matches yours. The synonyms and spelling corrections are tools that make my experience with google much better. The issue, for me, continues to be the quality of the results. I still have a lot of issues with duplicate content polluting the results (particularly on programming related queries). I still have to dive a few pages deep way too often to find what I really want. Although I've yet to find a competitor who consistently does better (or even as well).