hienyimba

Your selective bias makes you sound like a Google employee.

You selectively left out examples like Grindsoft that gives the site a 79/100 ranking. or several LinkedIn, X or news sites that link to the site and have covered it positively.

Nevertheless, if Google uses ScamAdvisor to rank new sites (when scamadviser itself says its gives new sites lower rankings due to low age/history), then it might be time to pack the company up.

Actually, the reverse is the case. If the entire internet was filled with only "positive-quality sites", there won't be need for a search engine.

The work of a search engine is to wade through the internet and find the positive-quality sites itself.

I just gave a concrete example but you're asking me to "search". search same Google? FYI, only indexing a handful of super large news sites does not a search engine make.

Google is no longer a search engine anymore. They don’t care about being one. Why you might ask?

First, a search engine indexes the web and makes it available to users. It’s been ages since Google did any of that. They no longer index sites or take ages to do so. Case in point, our cybersecurity startup (Webvetted.com) was launched in November 2025. Till date, only one page is indexed on the entire website. And I’ve talked to lots of other developers and it’s a common issue.

Secondly, a search engine organizes indexed information and makes it useful for people. Google is a basic LLM nowadays. They figured out that why organize and make the information useful when they could just answer the question with Gemini anyways? So they no longer bother to do the work of a search engine and are now just a lower-ranking open-source Chinese LLM

The "AI" "agent" "helpdesk" they pivoted into is such a grift. AI agents still does not solve the main issues that makes a person contact support in the first place. How do I know? I was a founder in the space.

but good for them that they got salesforce to buy it.

We’ve been experiencing the same thing. On further inspection, we discovered that the owner of the data centers was Tencent. So we blocked them at the ASN level across countries.

This was after web had to geo block China & Singapore some weeks earlier.

These AI scraping guys are destroying the web for normal folks in these countries where they run data scrapers.