Crap SEO content has been blighting the web for years now, of course, but I seem to remember it being worse in ~2008-10 with content farms like eHow and Mahalo

Crap SEO content has been blighting the web for years now, of course, but I seem to remember it being worse in ~2008-10 with content farms like eHow and Mahalo spewing forth their garbage content in order to (successfully, for a time) game Google.