[gertrunde]

Literally the first sentence:

"The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind — from quick facts to the deep, complex or hyper-specific questions that can be hard to articulate."

Really? My aim has always been to find a place off google that has the information that I'm looking for.

If the purpose of google search is no longer aligned with what I want from the product... then maybe that tells me all I need to know.

If you want a search engine... it sounds like that's not what Google is any more.