It's just not your wife. Many peopel can't see the point in the new quality search results from google. Penguin, anaconda and whatever zoo thingy going on, doesn't add quality to the search engine.
1) Blocking of torrent and mp3 sites - Google is blocking them and so it is limiting many people to go to commercial sites to purchase music or rip from youtube. Either way it is not good. Again if we think from this in more Black hat way. I do respect copyright and efforts but I can't afford to pay for 2-3 bucks per song in trance genre when I hear almost 40-50 good songs each month. So using search saves me money. Mind you, I do buy favorite song to support the artist, but it's not easy paying for every song in trance genre each month,
2) Forced local search - When I search for "wombat" or say " koala" google tries to understand indian perspective on these search terms and show me relevant pages which are low quality. If you go to google AU for these terms search quality is much better. So forcing local perspective for international terms is wrong approach. Just show the quality for such terms regardless of the locale.
3) More ads sneaked into results - It's quite hard to see which is result and which is ad, some ads even bypass ad block plus. I know many of you hate that but I am not your buyer so i have to enable it.
4) Low quality results for classic authors and old movies, animes, animation, novels etc. Most of the results are close but doesn't carry the information that we seek.
I am using duckduckgo for some of the search terms and it is working out for me so far.
