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Anecdotally, I'm finding it's becoming much harder to Google article titles for me when I'm trying to pull up an article on my phone to share. The top few hits are usually copycat sites.

I wonder if Google's gotten too comfortable in its dominant position, so it's not troubled when its search quality slips.

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My guess is Google makes better ROI on copycat sites (the reason for their existence beeing linking and displaying adds - both fields dominated by Google). So it isn't accidental it is direct result of Google's policy.

I'm actually hoping that somebody will look into this further and from many different angles and scenarios since people don't seem to realize how much of what they don't see is likely due to Google's search algorithms, not to mention the junk that is most promoted to the top of the results pile.

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