There was, if anything, more search engine spam then. It's just that you got the tools to remove it yourself and then after 12-15 tries you got beautiful search

There was, if anything, more search engine spam then. It's just that you got the tools to remove it yourself and then after 12-15 tries you got beautiful search results. Now they've gotten rid of that refinement process in favor of initial results that aren't spam but also aren't that exciting.