Is Google Becoming Stupid Now?

There are 2 interesting and surprising incidents worth exposing and noting about  Google that I have found, it’s related the ability of Google in providing reliable and good service to its users. First incident is about the result Google displays for Oscar Winners keyword, if you search for “Oscar Winners” then no actual and clear answer given by Google, so you are left with confusion on who the winners might be. See the following screen shot:

Google displays the page based on keywords in description field and number of incoming links point to the page with text link related to Oscar and Winners, in result the page appears, no matter when was the page published. But different result yet accurate and up-to-date found if searching the same keyword in Ask.com, see the following image:

Ask.com gives a complete, clear and up-to-date result.

Is Google becoming stupid now? Michael Gary Wolf gives amusing What if post about this confusion. What if some publishers get together to sabotage Google with really inaccurate information such as “July 4th is the day Great Brittan Celebrates Victory over the American Colonies” and massively post about it in their blogs, will Google display such result in result page for ones searching for “July 4th”?

Google must gives a serious attention to fix this before everything goes badly uncontrolled, imagines if this situation used by bunch of irresponsible folks to bombard Google with really irrelevant information for their own benefit, there will be a huge misleading information for Google users

And then Google will lose trust from information seekers and they will turn to another search engine such as Yahoo.com, MSN and ASK.COM, if this happens Google’s death will come in near future.

And another incident, I found this story yesterday in the forum I currently participate with. There’s a guy who changed its url structure from underscores to hypens (for example /post_title.html to /post-title.html).

The guy has removed the old to new url for approximately 2 months ago, but Google still hasn’t removed the old url from its index, however Google has indexed the new one. The guy has done everything necessarily and required, such as updating sitemap, 301 redirecting all his old urls to the new ones and also removing old url from Google webmaster.com yet no effect at all, somehow Google still shows the old urls in SERP.

But surprisingly yahoo! only took 3 weeks to updated and correctly displayed the changes.

Google what’s happening to you? Are you gradually becoming stupid now? Hmmm I hope not!