[madsbuch]

Neither stock pricing or search rankings should be seems as a game. Your perspective is adversarial. Please, for the sake of humanity, let's try to be more ambitious than this.

Stock pricing should, in its core, be about valuing an asset.

Search rankings should, in its core, be about providing most relevant material to a query.

[graeme]

People absolutely are adversarial in these situations. Google rankings are valuable, so people try to game them, and google tries to fend them off with algorithm changes.

You can’t wave a wand to stop that. I’m describing the world as it is, not advocating how it ought to be.