[citizenpaul]

I've always been a critic of the algorithm over curation for search. Cheap low effort content has always been orders of magnitude easier to generate than real quality content. The only way to prevent declines of the real content is to put a wall(curation) around serious information providers so they cannot be gamified out of the way by bad actors.

Embracing Googles "battle it out" style of search results has been a net harm to the quality of searching for information.

If the world stuck with the slower but ultimately finite method of curating quality providers we would have an amazing set of resources instead of spam blogs.