superclown2 - 3:18 pm on Dec 1, 2012 (gmt 0)

[IMO the best way to clean out the trash is go back to our roots because back in the day of real directories, paid inclusion and actual link pages on trusted sites you simply never encountered the crap you find in todays search engines. Google's algos have just lost the purpose of how the original web worked which was links were votes of what was worth visiting and trusted sites only linked other trusted sites, an invitation only kind of establishment that kept people from drudging through the crud we do today.

You may be right but think of how much screaming there would be from webmasters then! Three hundred dollars a year for every website displayed by Yahoo, hundreds of different "search engines" all with their own primitive algos, paid entries jumbled amongst the generic SERPs by Overture; Webmaster World wouldn't need a new server, it would have to run it's own datacentre. And must we really start buttering up the editors to get our sites in DMOZ again? No no, this must be a nightmare I'm having .....