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SEO (search engine optimization) has dominated search results for almost as long as search engines have existed. The entire field of SEO is about gaming the system at the expense of users, and often also at the expense of search platforms.
The audience for an author's gripping life story in every goddamn recipe was never humans, either. That was just for Google's algorithm.
Slop is not new. It's just more automated now. There are two new problems for users, though:
For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.
The uBlacklist extension brings it back