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Surely they could just have a system to filter out bad sites?

For example, if I want information about some programming stuff, I only really want

* Wikipedia

* StackExchange

* MDN

* cpp-reference

* whatever official docs

There's absolutely no need to have

* geeksforgeeks

* w3schools

* cyberciti.biz

* random wordpress blogs

This takes all of 5 minutes to code, you could even have a userscript for it.

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I have no problems with and frequently use w3schools. I also find tons of programming content on other sites where people post code they are working on or tips. I don't know that I've ever really referenced Wikipedia for anything programming. I normally just do a Stack Exchange site search through google. I feel like this is the only area where Google search is still decent, but anything after the first page, maybe second is like literally nonsense.

Google benefits from a chaotic and spam-filled ecosystem. At this point technology and network speed are at a point that anyone could re-code a Google if all they did was ignore 99.9% of the wesites out there that are crap and that Google (and Amazon and a few other spam-benefiters) had a hand in creating or promoting.

This is why Adwords has to go. It allowed Google to weaponize the collective man-power of the world to create and regurgitate new ad-space for Google to monetize. Ad-space that didn't exist, and doesn't need to exist.

uBlacklist exists

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