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> find a way to filter out all of the spam

It is the same spam sites I see again and again. A manual blacklist from one puny FTE would probably clean up the wast majority.

But that would involve hiring a human. Google's prime directive is "Never hire a human do a job well, when you can train AI to do the same job badly"

They could even crowd source this by allowing users to block domains from search results, which should affect its ranking long term.

As with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.

You can use -inurl:example.com