WebProWorld - View Single Post - Google fast becoming the worst search engine on the web

pne · #15 (**permalink**) 11-01-2004, 01:23 PM

minstrel,

Kind of agree, kind of don't. I'm finding Yahoo! increasingly returns (slightly) better results in my niche than Google. But that's subjective, irrelevant and not the point.

My feeling is that the mega-directory sitting at the top of the SERPs is anti-competitive and against the ethos that (I guess) most posters here subscribe to.

The fact that Google is the search engine of choice for most searchers is as irrelevant to the issue of "quality" as my subjective opinion posted above.

These issues are market-driven. Google has primacy because it (once) served up the best searches, it had a clever gimmick and it was hip. I think it's losing it's search engine relevancy (slowly for sure) and that's a good thing for us, i.e. Webmasters.

Regards,

pne