Agreed. These days it seems in all of my Google searches, after the first third of a page of results, everything is dominated by garbage pages on (presumably)

Agreed. These days it seems in all of my Google searches, after the first third of a page of results, everything is dominated by garbage pages on (presumably) hacked sites filled with SEO bait. They're so obviously gaming the system, I can only presume Google is intentionally looking the other way.