One thing I wanted to mention earlier, didn't have time: The pop song that comprises the first two pages of results for the "maybe there is a god" search is ac

One thing I wanted to mention earlier, didn't have time: The pop song that comprises the first two pages of results for the "maybe there is a god" search is actually called "Mabye There's A Loving God." That's close to the search text, but it's not an exact match. The MeFi page mentioned in the article contains the exact phrase "maybe there is a god" in the title. And it shows up on page eight of my search results. That is ridiculous. You can argue that MeFi wasn't singled out on purpose, that algorithms change and there are bigger benefits elsewhere that I'm not seeing in this case and blah blah blah, and I don't know about any of that. No opinion. But I think you're going to have a hard time arguing that these search results are in any way more accurate, more relevant, or better than the older results were. And that is very much of a piece with recent, more general criticism of Google's search: That it's simply not as good, not as useful, as it used to be.