[w00pla]

> just blacklisting a few of the larger and more egregious content farms seems like a decent band-aid.

The real band aid would be to enable users to blacklist sites that they don't want to see. I often search for things and come across the same spam sites that I do not want, over and over.

After that a distributed trust model should be built so that users can share blacklists of spam sites.

[BonesLF]

Click settings on Google News and choose the sites you want less content from.

Blacklists are awesome...but no one but "us" knows how to use them.

[w00pla]

It is not google news but sites which aggregate search terms. A good example is www.eudict.com which repeatedly puts up other peoples' search terms as real words.

(If you are searching for some words, you are flooded with EUDicks search spam)