Google's searches are becoming second rate

[Ms Naughty]

I just have to let off steam, because Google is pissing me off.

I'm talking as a surfer here, not as a webmaster. I'm trying to do some research for an article I'm writing and the results I'm getting from Google are just crap.

Never mind all the spam, the actual searches themselves are inaccurate. They're not returning what I want.

One of the big factors in this is that Google have decided to automatically include similar words in the search.

Example: I'm searching for the term "remove". Google is also including "removed", "removal" and "removes". I didn't ask it to include synonyms, it assumes I want it. Trouble is, this means my search is no longer as targetted and I'm getting a heap of results that aren't on topic.

I went to Yahoo and got what I wanted straight away.

Is it too soon to start predicting the demise of google? Because the way I feel right now, I'll be glad to see it go.