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I am beginning to think that the simplest explanation is the most likely one. Google is just bad at stuff... If this was all part of some clever conspiracy the

• remus 5y ago
  Or more simple still, it's a hard problem to solve and when there's billions of emails flowing through the pipeline every hour small mistakes can look big to individual users.
  • fay59 5y ago
    Same as with gaming search, it’s possible that spammers are catching up with the Google smarts, and from this point it’s unclear how to proceed.
• schappim 5y ago
  "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", except for the "promotions tab", that was clear malice to increase their ads revenue.
• cube00 5y ago
  I don't think they're bad, it feels more like they hit the 80/20 point and move on to something else. In the case of spam detection, whatever worked ten years ago set and forget without anyone quality assuring it as things evolve.