[fear91]

Google seems less and less connected to reality the bigger they grow.

It's a shame that the search engine market share isn't split evenly by several different engines. I think it would be beneficent both to the users and website owners. Right now everyone tries to court Google and they seem to do whatever the fuck they want.

[jerf]

It's also worth remembering they're under continuous, distributed assault by human-intelligent agents (at least to a first approximation) trying to game them specifically. The miracle is that Google works at all.