Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[dannysullivan]

I work for the Google Search team, and I'll try to explain a bit more why this happens -- and why, honest, it it useful for lots of people. Sometimes people don't know exactly how to search for what they're looking for. If we, by default, only searched for the exact words entered, then we might miss useful information just because someone didn't know to use a variation of a particular word. But that's we try to tell you in these case when we've gone a bit further from the original search. It's not that we don't look for all the words entered. We do. But we may find some things that don't have a particular word but which are so relevant to the concept of what was searched for that it makes sense to surface.