[alexmobile]

IMHO, spammers have little chance against Google in a long run, here is why:

- it is of vital highest priority for Google to stay ahead of SEO spammers, or they may stand to lose their $$$ billion search business. So resources to fight spam will always be allocated

- it would take only 1 smart Google person to write smart algo, and it will get amplified by 100,000 server cores at Google. And Google employs >> 1 smart EE

- the Chrome browser has 50% market share and may collect enormous SERP quality / engagement metrics on what "end users" actually click in search results, how much time they spend there vs amount of content on that page, and what page finishes each search quest (i.e. user has found what they were looking for) - these are in fact one of the best "quality signals" available to Google.

- and Google could completely ignore signals from any Chrome instance that has even slightest suspect on being manipulated (Chrome is a native app so it could monitor mouse movement patterns, etc).

- I would say Google is much better equipped than spammers to keep staying ahead. Of course, there are going to be some short term advances in a black hat SEO or social networks manipulations, but eventually every serious loophole would get closed

[dogma1138]

Anyone who've used a search engine disagrees with you. And as far as Google goes, their only "gripe" with SEO/Spammers is that they get the money instead of Google.

So yes, Google does work to stay ahead of SEO spammers by providing a better service than them for those who are willing to pay, because the consumers don't care and as long as you don't get Viagra commercial and 17 types of malware by clicking on a promoted search result in Google neither will you.