[petenick]

“The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share knowledge, not websites with their primary priority to make ad revenue.”

The best way to fix the system is to prioritize the best content irrespective of monetization strategy.

Search engines should not penalize websites trying to make money.

They should penalize spammy websites that add little value but know how to game the system.

The degree to which the creator monetizes their content should bear little weight with a search engine that is trying to serve the best content.

[miikavonbell]

I haven't seen much discussions about solving the entire "search sucks" mess by simply introducing rich filtering for the results.

The way I see it is that Google is still some weird magic box that throws a bunch of random results out based on some black magic logic.

It's beyond my comprehension that there are no filters on any on the search engines (at least I don't remember seeing any).

By having some filtering options, such as "No JavaScript", "No ads", "SSGs only", "Page size < 1MB" and so on, search would be much better.