[slig]

They used to be good at it, now they seem bad. How can that be? How hard is to not show three exact copies of the same result for the same query on the first page?

And yes, I'm being "an armchair critic/engineer", like everyone else criticizing Google or any other big company that seems to be getting worse at what they excelled.

[davidatbu]

To be clear, I am not labeling your commentary armchair criticism because you are supposing that spam on Google is more prevalent in recent times, but because you are so confidently asserting that it is easy to fight spam at the scale and quality Google is operating at.

Since you haven't provided any qualifications/past experience, I am not convinced at all that it's as easy as you say it is.

[slig]

Fair enough.