The kind of copy Google encourages is at least as big a problem, I'd say. Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fift

The kind of copy Google encourages is at least as big a problem, I'd say. Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs to get what you wanted? It's a real problem on the Web these days. Pages with incredibly low information density, on purpose. Even the simplest piece of information may be buried way, way down a page with no actual content above it, just inane rambling. This is a real problem for search results on all kinds of topics. You may have seen it yourself, these garbage pages with high search rankings. How bad a problem is it? Often the entire first page of results is nothing but pages that waste your time on purpose. (but seriously, imagine the sheer count of person-hours wasted writing and reading this useless fucking crap, making the Web worse on purpose, and it's been going on long enough that I guess... Google just thinks that's fine? Ugh. I swear it's like they just gave up on good search results around '08 or '09 and settled for whatever as long as the pages serve ads and get clicks)