Has Google become more stupid lately?

Google keeps trying to be helpful with suggestions, alternate spellings and word tense.  You'd think using quotes would give an exact match, but it still returns spelling and grammar variations.  Google used to return just what I was looking for, not suggest things like it was Ask Jeeves.

If you are looking for an old style google, why not load up the older google pages from http://www.archive.org/index.php