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Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by gojomo on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:26AM (#2074599)
a crawler for unsubsidized content

Note that this doesn't require an all-new crawl/engine: just for an existing engine to offer an advanced operator that filters ad-drenched pages from results. Even just an operator that eliminated AdSense sites would be a big win for some queries.

Re:Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by noibl on Thursday January 06, 2011 @11:17PM (#2078540)
While technically feasible, this would rule out a large number of high quality content sites which are currently ad-supported. For example, specialist community forums often carry ads just to cover costs. You need to allow for a different funding model for sites like that, such as subscriptions.