> Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world? Let's try? It's also an interesting research topic in itself an

> Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world? Let's try? It's also an interesting research topic in itself and might be a topic for academic research. At the moment Google is a black box and their incentives are not really aligned to stop SEO. It's good for them to show more ads, it's good for them to show you copycat pages of github/stackoverflow with ads. Not saying that Google is doing this on purpose - I doubt it - but we don't know. It's surely possible to create an index and ranking that prefers different things than Google. Let's try something at least. It will be gamed, will be worse probably but it's open and can be a playground for academic research. Best that can happen is that there are ways to for a better ranking and Google was dishonest to maximize profit. If it's still gamed at least the mechanics can be studied and analysed and maybe someone can figure out a switch like 'be unfair in ways Google can't' - would love a 'no ads on the page' switch that would probably solve quite a few problems. Trust our black-box and you won't have enough devs for this is just a bad answer for such an important problem. The amount of stupid simple redirection spam in my results in the last few years also looks like that Google just doesn't care alot about this anymore.