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Sites that do auto translate of original SO threads and pretend that it's their original content are the worst. Google sometimes prefers to give me that results instead of the actual SO thread because I'm not in English-speaking country. I have to waste some time to understand that it's just stolen SO thread. And it's not even that useful because some of them AUTO TRANSLATE CODE .
IMHO the biggest offender: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ They are making me insane with the modal login demand. I wonder if Google has downgraded the authoritative standing of StackOverflow?
With ublock origin I have not seen any modal logins.
For example this article on red black trees: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/red-black-tree-set-1-introduct... does not seem that horrible with proper references to CLRS and everything
OP is talking about ugly looking automated Stack Overflow copies. No idea how those end up so high in rankings.
There was an SO outage this last year, and I only found that out when I tried to go to SO and couldn't get to it. I checked page 2 of Google and found one of the mirrors that you're talking about. I grabbed the content from there and continued with work. I think it's a matter of perspective. If you _know_ that you want a specific site, use google's 'site:' specifier. If you're looking and find something that is from…
But these scape sites add nothing of value at all, not even as an involuntary backup/archive type, since they are usually laden with ads.
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No it isn't. Ads are their core business. Those crap sites almost all run ads from Google
That's a shortsighted view because it would imply that the quality of search doesn't have any bearing on their success. I highly doubt any Googler would agree with that. Especially not the ones who have been working on search specifically.
Google is the goto search engine today, the competition is virtually non-existant, so they don't have to compete anymore. Hence the quality of their search engine going down hill, conflict of interests and what not. It's not shortsighted, it would take billions to compete with Google search and even Bing isn't even trying anymore.
When I look at a Google search page result today I see loads of ads, then their shopping stuff, image search stuff, a list of questions related or not to my search and their answers extracted from third party web pages, then only when I scroll 1 page I see actual search results. Google search wasn't like that 15 years ago.
Googlers are working so that Google makes more money, and Google is an ad company first and foremost.
IMHO the biggest offender: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ They are making me insane with the modal login demand. I wonder if Google has downgraded the authoritative standing of StackOverflow?
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> they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight Google clearly isn't even trying. So many of these sites are polluting search results for months. It isn't a case of sites that pop up for a few hours until Google notices and blacklists them. Google Search has gone so far downhill. I'm not sure what they're optimising for. Long-term irrelevance, it seems.
Is it legally a good idea for Google to go and blacklist individual sites?