In every search I try, the result is up in the top three, or what I'm looking for is not out there at all. At least, not under my search terms.

To me it seems like a plain old troll, because Google is just as useful to me as it was a year ago. And your being on the web a long time has nothing to do with it - I've been around since Gopher as well. I used altavista, and lycos, and inktomy, and so far, google is still working for me.

Not that there is no room for improvement, but they do say that it's their policy to change their algorithms whenever spammers try to exploit them. And they don't sell positioning (try to buy it, and see if they sell it to you).

So no, I disagree.