Comment Re:Malware/Spyware isn't the only problem... (Score 1) 175
google totally sold out and lost their mojo.
I get link farm sites from the first page that SHOULD be weeded out
1. First, the idea that you could substitute some sort of "herd" mentality for the evaluation of web sites instead of actual ratings by real subject experts is bunk.
2. Google does not care. They crapped up net-news and don't care. 99+% of the usenet groups I still read are drug and counterfeit merchandise spam posted through google groups and/or g-mail accounts. You would think with all of the supposed AI and computing power available to them that it would be easy to filter out newsgroup spam. I new read net news using a news reader, but the g-mail spam is so overwhelming that even the news server's filters don't keep it out.
3. Even when I do read net news through google, the quality of ads on the right side of the page is abysmal.
4. As a business owner, I have voted with my wallet. I will NEVER do business with Google. I will never buy ad-words. I will never spend a dime on anything that even remotely smells like SEO.