Recently there has been a lot of talk about how Google is loosing their edge and putting up smokescreens to tell webmasters its their fault, while frantically working in the background to fix their problems.
Amazingly Googles search result really seem to be changing a lot on a daily basis now and their cache seems to be outdated.
But worst of all is this: Google is dropping indexed pages for no obvious reason on a daily basis. I have noticed the same thing on this website.
A short while ago, the Google Index showed that it had over 10,000 of my pages indexed, which made me wonder how this could be, as I only have around 2000 or so.
Yesterday I checked again, and voila, Google showed around 1000 indexed pages (far less than I have). I haven't used any suspicious advertising techniques mentioned in the link above, nor have I used any techniques that could explain the 10,000 pages and subsequent punishment by googles algorithm.
Today I checked the index again and this is what I found:

Google:

All of a sudden google only shows 954 of my pages. This number is dropping on a daily basis now.
Since this website is one of the few honest websites with original content not stolen anywhere, with no links to suspicious sites or any other problem that could explain this, I can only agree with some of the other webmasters in saying that Google appears to be broken.

I checked MSN:


And I checked Yahoo:


What's really amazing is that the MSN bot is the busiest on my website, yet MSN shows only 355 results. Googlebot is the second busiest, and I used to have the most pages with Google. However recently I see a large portion of this site dropped every day. The Yahoo robot is one of the least busiest robots on my site, yet in the Yahoo Index I show up with 2,170 pages (which sounds about right). Go figure. The only explaination is this: For some reason this site is being devalued by Search Engines. Meaning the faster they come, the faster they tune down the value. That shouldn't really matter, fluctuations happen. But why drop pages from the index instead of ranking them different?

EDIT: I just double checked. Actually yesterday I got massively bombarded by the Inktomi Slurp bot (I believe this is what yahoo uses). Seems like Yahoo is seriously improving their crawl capabilites.

What is happening in the search engine world?
Are the cards being shuffled again?
When will search users realize the problems Google has and move on to Yahoo or MSN?
Why are their bots so busy?
Why is the Google cache showing so many old pages?

The results above may not be representative as they only refer to this website, however I have read a lot of comments from a lot of unhappy people recently.
From now on I will start using other search engines in parallel with Google to make sure that I get the most relevant and up to date information.