[sitkack]

Yes, over the last six weeks the results you would normally find in the first page are now on page two or three.

Search results for previous searches where I know the response corpus are significantly degraded.

Search quality has been falling pretty steadily over the last couple years.

[bob_theslob646]

I'm starting to think that their intentionally doing that in order for you to spend more time on their search engine therefore increasing the likelihood that you'll click on an ad whether it's intentional or not. It would be so messed up if the data came back that people were just clicking on the ads because they think they're relevant since they're on the first page but the reality is they're not they're just doing it to monetize. The only way that you would find this out is if the people who are paying for the ads noticed that they're ROI was actually better which would be interesting because I'm not sure how it works now but in the past it was all based off of clicks not based off of whether or not they converted. I think the values have to be realigned so that it's only paid whether or not the ad was useful versus just a click. I cannot tell you how many times I've just accidentally clicked on ads without mean to do so. Hopefully that's built into the price but I doubt it.