Thirteen years ago, DEC's Altavista was a great search engine - but that was before DEC became lax, the internet became gamed, and it became useless. Similarly, Google Search had one trick, on one pony ride, a long time ago.

Google Search's subsequent and continuing failure didn't require a lack of development or cheater links, for it never could search beyond the stinking pile of its own hubris. Not that it needs to, for it has morphed into a seller of misleading ads to buyers of shallow integrity targeting the most naïve of Home Shopping Network's clientèle; it is now the eBay of search engines, the Microsoft Vista of innovative technology.

Who with any clue ever sets up a computer for the clueless that can access Google?

Serious question ...

As all public companies of this size inevitably do. What's next? I tried Alta-Vista for a while, the day that the internet broke, but that still pretty much sucks too =(

Oh, and yes, it finds what you're looking for. Normally at or near the top of the (unsponsored) results.

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Look at the byline. The content shouldn't really be a shocker.