I love Google, they have one of the best systems for weighing search results and as AltaVista, Hotbot, WebCrawler, etc. have become mired in advertising and poor results muck, Google has become the king of search engines.

But Google is starting to suck. Hard.

Many people have pointed out that Google's system can be manipulated. Weblogs get high results on Google because of the meme-like way links are traded and are often combined with descriptive phrases on the links. The downside, is that capitalism sucks and the spammers have figured it out.

In the past few months it's gotten worse and worse. More and more often I'm getting results that lead to fake/pseudo search engines designed to trap keyword searches and redirect you.

I'm tired of seeing page after page of the same damn sites under different domains and slight rewordings. It's getting annoying and I seriously hope someone at Google is cooking up some way to avoid these misdirections.