Over 6 months ago, I reported that Google was getting gamed on a moderately searched, but important health question: "Can women take Tylenol while pregnant?"
Six months later, not only are they still getting gamed, but their results are worse then when I made the original post. Now they have blank pages, non-existent pages, spammy pages. Check out the results yourself at the following link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=can+women+take+Tylenol+while+pregnant
I reported this issue to Google. They've not done anything about it in 6 months. So what does that tell me? That reporting spam and reporting dissatisfied results is an impotent action. It's a waste of my time. Simple induction: if it doesn't work once, then try again, if it doesn't work twice, start being skeptical, if it doesn't work the third time, assume it's just not going to work.
Google is like the Borg
Google is like the Borg collective: they leave you alone if you're not a threat. But have you ever tried talking to a Borg member? :)
Precursor to Google Health?
One possibility (it's a way out one, but bear with me) is that Google are doing nothing about polluted health related searches as a precursor to ramping up awareness of the Google Health Co-op beta. That way, they could collect Adsense revenue from spammy companies in the normal health searches and collect a premium for ads placed in the "authority" area.
The big flaw in my conspiracy is that hardly anyone knows the the Co-op exists. Only a small number of topics are being developed at this time (full list here).
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