Comment by eitland

Most of the problems I complain about are not related to SEO spam but to Google including sites that does not contain my search terms anywhere despite my use of doublequotes and the verbatim operator.

As for SEO spam a huge chunk of it would have disappeared I think if Google had created the much requested personal blacklist that we used to ask them for.

It was always "actually much harder than anyone of you who don't work here can imagine for reasons we cannot tell or you cannot understand" or something like that problem, but bootstraped Kagi managed to do it - and their results are so much better that I don't usually need it.