"To better address these techniques, we’re strengthening our policy to focus on this abusive behavior — producing content at scale to boost search ranking — whe

"To better address these techniques, we’re strengthening our policy to focus on this abusive behavior — producing content at scale to boost search ranking — whether automation, humans or a combination are involved" But this isn't the problem. People are just generating boatloads of "AI" generated pages with a bunch of ads. They don't need to be #1 in the search list, they just need some of their pages to appear in the search list frequently enough that the ads google places on those pages turn a profit. Which google also knows, but again they're selling the ads, so they're getting a cut of it as well. As long as google doesn't penalize pages on the basis of how many ad services and similar they use (and penalize google ads at the same rate) this will continue, and as long as it continues google profits from it. I get that a number of the engineers might not like that, but enough of them do that they long ago threw out basic privacy, accuracy of search results, and even the relevance of ads.