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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by throwaway2048 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:08PM (#13888691)
Perfect example of this is trying to google for mailing list posts.

All sorts of maximum ad-cram crappy sites (including ones that try to pretend to be a forum, with mailing list posts as "users") that maximize SEO gaming techniques dominate the results for 20+ pages.

http://marc.info, which is the best archive avalible atm, plain, simple no bullshit layout and is linked everywhere anytime somebody wants to reference a mailing list archive, nowhere to be found.

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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:22PM (#13889726)
IMO it's because Gmane used to be highly ranked, but then it was shut down, so all those links are now gone, and the "void" has been filled with "crappy sites" like you said.

Speaking of which, does anyone know what's going on with Gmane? There hasn't been any updates since the ownership change.

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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by rz2k on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:02PM (#13898372)
How does that compare to http://markmail.org?
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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by mej10 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:25PM (#13890608)
I am sure they all have Google's ads on them, too. Only slightly suspicious.
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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by robk on Friday March 17, 2017 @05:43AM (#13892716)
I can assure you adsense has no connection to crawl or rankings.
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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by RyanZAG on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:01AM (#13893016)
How much connection does it have to making the removal of adsense spam pages from Google's index a priority? I have a feeling it lowers that priority significantly, and if those pages were hurting Google's bottom line, it would be priority #1 for the company to remove them.
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Re:False information on the internet is hiding the truth abo... by emmelaich on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:06PM (#13898401)
Making money is certainly a motivation for doing it.

A non-existant website won't get a search placing.

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