Same here. However, I've also noticed Google starting to suck more and more over the last year or two. The latest trend is that it will blatantly ignore whateve

Same here. However, I've also noticed Google starting to suck more and more over the last year or two. The latest trend is that it will blatantly ignore whatever search terms you enter, if any of the individual terms happen to be related to something that's currently popular. It will assume "you must have meant that". And I don't mean when it spots a typo and suggests "did you mean...". Their index for a long time has not particularly cared whether a page contains the specific words you entered, so much as subject relevancy. However recently it's got very aggressive about deciding what it thinks you meant, and ignoring most of what you actually typed. This probably works for a large proportion of searches where people don't really know what they are looking for anyway, but it's really bad when you are trying to locate very specific information, especially anything technical. It's very much like a return to the bad old days of spammy, highly irrelevant results, avoiding which is the whole reason we all switched to Google in the first place. What makes it worse is the gradual erosion of advanced search features, like the ability to quote an exact word or phrase to filter out results that don't contain it. The fact that Google can't handle special characters is a pain too, and makes searching for anything Clojure-related nearly impossible. And recently, their dropping of the extremely useful discussion search feature. If DDG introduce a similar discussion search feature, I will most likely switch a large proportion of my searches to them just for that, because it was a great way to filter out spammy results, when searching for things like product reviews and obscure technical things like error messages. Nowadays whenever I run into a search that just isn't giving satisfactory results on Google, I'll give DDG and Bing a try. Unfortunately they tend to be equally bad, for different reasons. It's a shame that DDG simply cannot yet compete with the scale and quality of Google's index, because the general ethos at DDG to build search tools that actually work, is much closer to what Google was doing 10 years ago, before their focus started to shift in other directions.