ed -Well - i wasnt going to post this - because i dont believe google has been degraded - but hey- you dont pay me for my views.... or do you...
"The inevitable backlash finally appears to have hit the world"s most popular search engine. In recent years, Web addicts have praised Google as everything from ultimate card catalog to panopticon of the Internet. But critics posting to weblogs and search engine discussion sites claim that, for the first time since its launch in 1998, Google results have been degraded rather than improved by the latest tweak to its proprietary scoring algorithm for Web pages, known as PageRank."