Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?

Here in Argentina, if you search in Spanish, todoar.com.ar comes up in the top 10 for almost everything. I'll hand it to the owners, they know how to do SEO. The problem is there's no useful content on any of their ad-ridden pages.

mahalo

Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer).

Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for technology related questions, like all of those mailing-list archives/mirrors, and the huge number of pages that ripped old forum content, experts-exchange is amazing.

I can't really think of any pages I would want removed. I would like to see better pages for a lot of products, but that seems to have more to do with the manufacturers simply not creating the pages than with Google. Search results for physical goods seem to be fairly lacking, its always hard to find information about them and not just stores selling them.

I've often thought that if you removed any site that uses Google Adsense you'd get much better results.

I would argue that indexing a bunch of crap actually _improves_ the quality of Google's search.

Just like trying to filter e-mail spam, the larger your spam corpus, the easier it is to differentiate between valid content and junk.