Flutterby™! : Have weblogs killed Google?

It's been said before, but I'm finding that Google is becoming worthless. Searches pull up stuff I've already seen before; if I wanted to see that stuff wouldn't be using Google. Unless I'm using it as a memory refresher, the first thing I do is click somewhere randomly way down in the list. In fact, for the search Charlene and I were doing last night (trying to find that bird we saw up at Castle Lake), it seems like AltaVista turns up better search results. I wonder if they'll keep up, or, if, like every other search engine, someone will come up with a better scoring system and trounce them.