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Not only Google, based on HN sentiment, noone wants SEO spam bullshit filling their web either.

• edgyquant 4y ago
  They don’t. But it’s pretty obvious Google didn’t care until 2 months ago
  • hirako2000 4y ago
    They always cared, but wagons of SEO consultants made it their job to figure out how to rank higher without tilting spam detectors.
    • skissane 4y ago
      Has Google really been "outsmarted" by all these SEO consultants? Or is Google smarter than them, but has decided not to use their smarts? Google search is full of content farm crap, and I don't believe Googlers aren't smart enough to work out how to stop it, if they were truly motivated to do that. Maybe, someone has decided that content farm crap is better for advertising revenue than real content. Or that the "average user" would rather crap than real. Or that the expected gain in advertising revenue from improving the search is less than the cost of doing so.
      • hirako2000 4y ago
        You are right, probably not.