HN keeps mentioning dark SEO and companies gaming the ranking. That might explain a lot but I don't think so. Just look to how they are messing up simple sear

HN keeps mentioning dark SEO and companies gaming the ranking. That might explain a lot but I don't think so. Just look to how they are messing up simple searches because of basic lack of quality controls: - Why doesn't doublequotes work anymore? Not because dark SEO vut because nobody cares. - Same goes for the verbatim option. - The last Android phone I liked was the Samsung SII, and last year I finally gave up and got the cheapest new iPhone I could get, an XR. My iPhone XR reliably does something my S3, S4, S7 Edge and at least one Samsung Note couldn't do: it just work as expected without unreasonable delays. - Ads. They seem to be optimized to fleece advertisers for pay-per-views because a good number of the ads I've seen are ridiculous, especially given that I had reported those ads a number of times. I guess what certain customers that probably paid a lot for those impressions would say if they knew that I had specifically tried to opt out from those ads and weren't in the target group anyway.