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> What are people expecting out of Google that it's not delivering?

I mean what you just listed.

Google won the search war because of PageRank eliminating lots of spam, and then something like 15 years of staying ahead of SEO spam and providing useful search.

Lately it seems like they've given up on the arms race and let the SEO spam win, but it isn't clear why.

And Google didn't produce high quality search for free, they used ads and sold the eyeballs they won.