Google ready for action against content farms

Found on CNet News on Saturday, 22 January 2011
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Google is ready to fire a shot across the bow of the so-called content farms, willing to acknowledge recent criticism of the quality of its search results but still not quite ready to detail specific remedies.

Google has been thinking for quite some time about how to deal with content that isn't obvious spam but is clearly not designed with the best interests of the user in mind, Cutts said.

Spam has been annoying for years now. Every time you try to inform yourself about anything that can be bought, your search results are loaded with spammy sites offering price comparisons and cheap deals.