Same here. I can remember how refreshing it was when Google was new and you could trust it to give you results for what you actually searched for instead of what it thought you searched for, like AltaVista and the rest of its competitors were doing at the time.
I guess it's time for something new to do the same thing to Google that it did to those companies years ago.
Other sites still offered old-school website directories, I remember using those for years, well after Google became #1.
I'd much prefer going back to something like that now than bother with Google's approach; depending on the search term, I already know what the top sites are going to be, and I know they won't have what I'm looking for.
I guess it's time for something new to do the same thing to Google that it did to those companies years ago.