The first thing I searched for in Google, back in 1999, was probably "linux", followed by my name.

The last thing I searched for in Google, on a snowy day in 2009, was "vdash".

With the decade over, and Google rolling out all manner of tracking cookies and javascript, it's time to move on. Just keeping on top of the torrent of privacy-affecting changes Google is making, and trying to parse the real meaning in the chirpy googlespeak announcements has become more work than the value their search engine adds. (This was the last straw.)

At least for now, I'll be using Duck Duck Go for search. It's small, quirky, has features the big competition lacks, and works well enough for my mostly moderate and occasionally intense needs. Sorta like Google in 1999.