[TheLastSamurai]

That's where "content is king" and search engine basics come to rescue. If search engine does its job well, high quality content will always turn up before low quality ones. If a programming article turned up on page-1, then it shouldn't matter whether it was written by someone with or without knowledge gap?

[papeda]

> If search engine does its job well

This is the problem of blogspam. There are plenty of "popular" blogs that are good at SEO and produce little to no good content.

[mkl]

Search engines have no idea whether an article is right, wrong, or irrelevant. In practice, they often do not and cannot do their job well.