[HPBEggo]

This.

Considering the vastly different uses people put different portions of Google's services towards, combining all of them seems rather counter-productive to me.

I suppose an option to partition different services into different relevancy 'portfolios' would solve the problem, but that puts a lot of burden on the user that, at least in my opinion, most users are not looking for.

[beatle]

time to switch to Bing

[sebphfx]

switch to Duckduckgo.They don't track you and it's awesome for programming questions. The first result is from Stack Overflow. You have categories on the right side. It's awesome. You can customize everything. The best search engine I ve seen in a while.

[fred_nada]

bing for main searches - DDG for tech searches... thats the play.