[minutillo]

My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ads which are obviously ads and easily ignored. A click to the average scrape-jacked SO page has dozens of ads using every dark pattern in the book to generate accidental clicks.

[fluidcruft]

One of the other commenters above made the claim that SO runs yahoo ads. If that's true then from a Google perspective, the click has either zero or negative money-making value.

Maybe that means we should be searching in yahoo rather than google.