As I browse Google, I'm noticing much more quality and relevant sites. I have to admit that I may be partially bias since I'm out of the sandbox and ranking in the top 10 for some of my competitive keywords, but I believe that Google has changed something that has drastically impoved its search results. Commercial keywords are actually returning relevant commercial results. Before I would find a lot more informational sites that half the time were not helpful in terms of what I was looking for.
Wow - I just spent all this morning reporting subdomain spam and missleading redirects. I wish Google would finally take action against one "hidden text" spammer who I have been reporting on and off for the past couple of months to no avail. Obviously, these spammers are all the ones beating my websites in the SERPS.
Google will never get it 'right' no matter what tweaks they apply here and there they will never be able to keep everyone happy. It's the same rule for the Government... except ours really can do nothing right!
The keywords I searched were very competitive. That may be one reason I didn't see as much spam. Martaay you are right that google will never be able to please everyone, but I do feel that they can achieve a good balance. If google isn't showing you any love, it may be a good idea to step back and see what you're doing right and wrong. Google's primary goal other than making money, is to provide the best possible results to its users. I hate to admit it, but they keep gaining market shares for a reason.
imo Google has always been and will always be the best search engine, theres a reason why they climbed to the top of the world its because they always improve
Personally, I don't see much spam in Google. Whenever, I search anything on googtle, I find relevant results. I really am not sure how people syaing there is a lot of spam in google.
Your right but foolish in saying so. Nobody can please everybody at the same time. "Everybody can please somebody, somebody can please most everybody but nobody can please everybody" However the normal people like myself are very pleased with Google. No they play monopoly alot and got a 'Advance to the top of search engines' card '...and collect 90% of internet searches on the way'
It would be very good if google eliminated spam, but by its very nature spam is not unnecessarily spam to everyone. Determining if a site is 100% spam I dont think is possible? So realistically I think they do a fairly good job.