Part of the problem is a huge part of that "content" is ultra SEO'd low quality copy pasted crap crammed with ads, specifically designed to harvest clicks from

Part of the problem is a huge part of that "content" is ultra SEO'd low quality copy pasted crap crammed with ads, specifically designed to harvest clicks from Google, and little else. The best open source mailing list archive is unquestionably https://marc.info https://marc.info . yet when you search things that are open source relevant, you get https://nabble.com https://nabble.com which goes as far as to fake being a forum and fills content from mailing lists, is nearly useless feature wise, and is crammed with all sorts of nasty obnoxious advertising. marc.info doesn't even crack page 10 with typical queries, because they don't play the SEO optimization game, and doesn't run ads. This is a great example of Google becoming totally useless. The last time I remember this being mentioned on HN, a few days later marc.info was at the top of search results for mailing list type posts, but it seems whatever manual tweak they applied has since been invalidated by the Googletron...