>> Google's search results are in a marked decline.
Could not disagree more. I was recently using DDG (which uses Bing and Yahoo search API, iirc) and I had to go back to google because the search quality is simply unmatched. That is not a 'i think its better but I cant really tell...' comment. That is from my personal experience of having to go back to google anytime my search got complex/obscure; then simply observing the difference between the two result sets.
Could not disagree more. I was recently using DDG (which uses Bing and Yahoo search API, iirc) and I had to go back to google because the search quality is simply unmatched. That is not a 'i think its better but I cant really tell...' comment. That is from my personal experience of having to go back to google anytime my search got complex/obscure; then simply observing the difference between the two result sets.
Instant search is an amazing feature also.