It is very clear to me that somehow, somewhere in the vast depth of Google's PhDs doing engineering on search algorithms, something significant has changed for the worst.

I started noticing it about 1 year ago and since that time the Google results have been getting oddly different. I can't quite pin it down - is it page rank? results? quality of links?

I'm glad to see that others have noticed as well. I have started mentioning this to my friends and clients and they are agreeing with me. I have changed all of my home page searches back to Yahoo and currently love the results.

I'm sad because I thought Google was the greatest for so many years.