Anybody besides me notice that Google's searches have become sloppy to the point of being completely useless to do specific searches?

The default behavior used to be that Google would only return results for pages that contained EVERY word in your search term, unless you went into "Advanced" - but now, it may turn up thousands more hits, mostly with pages that only contain two or three of your search terms. A few years ago, this sometimes happened as people stuffed metadata into their pages to "catch" searchers, but this isn't the case with thes errant results. So what is going on with Google? Even going into "Advanced Search" and specifying the terms in the "Must Contain All These Words" entry doesn't return the correct search results.

This whole mess wouldn't bother me so much if it still managed to return useful results, perhaps with pages that had all my words in the body of the pages at the top, metadata following below those, and the partial hits past that, but often the top result contains half my keywords (and none present in metadata, including the "cached" version Google indexed, which is sometimes gamed by unscrupulous web admins to include extra data when it sees the google crawler accessing a page), and that's just unacceptable. I will start my search (pardon the pun) for a search engine that actually does what it says it's doing, returning results based on my keywords, and not some vague notion of results. I'm not sure why Google is doing this, but if Bing, or some other searh engine can provide more accurate results. It's interesting that for the 9 term search I was using, Bing returned a reasonable 1600+ results, while Google returned 23,400+, and if any of Google's actually had all 9 terms, I didn't find them in the first few hits. Yahoo returned 1200+ hits, and again, using the cached versions, found the terms I had searched on.