lammert - 11:26 pm on Jan 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Those garbage sites and "meat search engines" as you call them is just what I am affraid for. These are run by people who (think they) know the secrets behind the Google system. And they will be the first also to sign up for a partner program if that would exist. The average webmaster with his non SE optimized site and a lot of interesting content will never think about such a thing as a Google partnership.

On the other hand I agree with you that Google has to find a solution for the current garbage in the SERPs and I hope they find a way to do that. But for every site they remove from the SE, ten new ones are created. It seems that these garbage constructors have specialized software that can faster create these fake sites than Google can detect and delete them at the moment.