One point about all the "Top X lists" and general blogspam that Google returns - I had once created a website that I was trying to get listed on these sites. I

One point about all the "Top X lists" and general blogspam that Google returns - I had once created a website that I was trying to get listed on these sites. I emailed a few of them to get my site listed and they transparently and directly offered to list my site for relatively small amounts of money. It was literally an exchange of 100 dollars for listing my site at number 1 and I got to write the description that went on their website. My point here is to add that in addition to the Google results being bad (they are listicles and blogspam rather than the answers you want) they are also corrupt in that people can just pay the owners of the spam sites to get the listings they want. This is a tax on the users by giving them indirect and bad results and also a tax on creators by forcing them to pay third parties to get their websites to rank in the appropriate Google searches or work on SEO voodoo to rank themselves.