Originally Posted by wankawonk

you lost a ton of traffic so "this update is shit" and "G don't know what they're doing"

my traffic is way up so "this update is great" and "G finally got their shit together"

porn queries returning mainstream results has been going on for years. Google explicitly wants to make sure mainstream queries never return porn results, and they're willing to let porn queries return mainstream results in order to achieve that. It's a business decision. It doesn't mean they don't have their shit together.

The "shitty" sites ranking above yours could be better than yours for any number of reasons. You're biased, everyone thinks their own site is the best. It's probably not.