Time to do another snapshot of where things are at. Bear in mind that rankings do bounce around a lot, and I am only viewing them from my own searching perspective (affecting locality). I am not logged in to Google when searching, so hopefully it doesn’t tailor the answers by detecting who I am some other way.
Page 1: bad results at #5,7 (out of 10)
Page 2: #9
Page 3: #5
Page 1: #9 (out of 10)
Page 2: #3, #9, #10
Page 3: #2, #8
Page 1: #9 (out of 10)
Page 2: #3, #9, #10
Page 3: #2, #8
Page 1: #3, #5 (out of 10; excluding my ads inserted between 1 & 2, and at the end.)
Page 2: #3
Page 3: none!
One continuous page: result #5, 6, 12 out of a total of 27 results. One less result here is a good thing in this context.
Bing and Yahoo! are looking a lot better on the first page. Very happy with that. Ask has improved slightly on page 1, and Google has made no difference to page one. Duckduckgo has also improved a little, as all of the engines have improved at least a little in the lower ranks.
Overall, there are signs of improvement but still a lot more to do. First impressions count, so my focus is on the first page; but I still want to be more thorough than that.