Comment by ec109685
2 years ago
Kagi works because there is no incentive for SEO manipulators to target it since their market share is so small.
Super tinfoil hat to believe Google wants to send users to blog spam websites (e.g. beneficial to Google).
Anytime there is money to be made, there is an effectively infinite amount of people trying to game the system.
That's why taking the money out of the click is effective.
There can be other models for making money, but methods that really on casting a wide net and driving low quality traffic is the thing that shouldn't be indexed or at least labeled as such
Google is a complex system so “want” can just include we are making money from the blog spam and while we don’t like it other things take priority over fighting it as effectively as we could.
It's never tinfoil-hat to assume that a corporation is, at very least, making sure not to fight too hard against any activity that brings it more revenue.