It's not just you. Google is now what Altavista and the other search engines it replaced became. The difference is that those went to crap in only a couple years where Google held out for decades and then suddenly has spiraled to where it is now. And it's the same reasons those search engines in the 90s went down the tubes. Everyone who wasn't there will tell you Google's superior technology (PageRank) is why it won. But that's not really why. It's because AltaVista, Lycos, etc. got awful to use, which cause us to look for an alternative. There was this nice clean upstart that said "Don't be evil." is their motto.

It's time for the cycle to begin again.