I've used Google for Internet searches since my days at Oracle in 1999. In the last 12-18 months Google has made changes to its search format which have made conducting searches more difficult and the results less relevant.
The biggest change was doing away with a quick link to "cached" search results. Now, you have to scroll over the individual search result, select the arrow, and then see if a cached result is even available. Often, even when there is a cached result, the page is no longer available. If you do extensive Internet research like I do, then you use the cached results to quickly find the information, which is highlighted, on the search result. Without it, you have to either manually screen the document or search within the document. The changes by Google are annoying and time consuming.
Another annoying "enhancement": they've removed the search box at the bottom of the page. I have my search settings display 100 results per page. When I get to the bottom, if it's clear that I need to adjust the search, I previously was be able to simply use the search box at the bottom of the page. Not anymore. It's a strange change that makes no sense.
My guess is that Google is taking a page from Microsoft's playbook and simply making changes for change sake, with no apparent benefit. I'll continue to use Google, but other search engines are quickly catching up and at some point I may make a switch.
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What I find most annoying about Google searches is they have decided that the search words you have entered are optional. Some of the results, possibly even the top one, won't have all your words. To get all the words you want in the result you now have to put each word in quotes.
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