We live in an era that is so much based on information that it seems there is no way the society will eventually reduce it's production of « information » would it be completely worthless or not. The internet in it's actual form has become a completely unmanaged blurb of « equal » information without any good way to actually classify and organize the contents of that blurb, on a "quality" basis, not on the supposed "meaning" of the page.

Also, let's not forget that not only do we have an incredible amount of information available online already, but thatt spammers are working 24/7 to publish more and more sites that copy, steal and remix actual information just in the (realistic it seems) hopes of making a quick money out of easy to grab internet traffic.

This means, that not only now internet users have to actually search and filter themselves the information (because of the incredible amount of "noise" on the web available to them, but they also have to constantly try to avoid spammy web pages that are only online to lure them into clicking on paid links. (It's no wonder that people that actually work and consume information on the internet often use several tools that allow them to actually browse the internet by other means that simple "search" since search is less and less reliable, leaving the place to "trust based" systems.)

Since normal people are not using those advanced tools and still using search engines to get information, they are often times overwhelmed with the amount of links especially if we consider spam and made for adsense pages.

Sure, people are clicking on the paid links, but why? I think people click so much because they are unable to actually find good information on their first click. It's true that most of the time people have access to the right information after they clicked on an ad, but why that extra step? Why do we have to deal with the double or the triple of the necessary information? Because companies are making a lot of money from allowing spammers to actually stay in the search engines. We talking about a whole economy here were "content publishers" reuse information and get good rankings on search engines, simply by re-using and republishing existing content, or slight changes to it.

To us this is a big issue with the current search engine model, since the search engines have interest in keeping those sites in their indexes since those sites will generally clicks, thus revenue!

Isin't it paradoxal that a search engine can't exclude "thin" spam pages from it's index cause it generates too much money? Isn't there a conflict of interest there?

The way faveeo.com would like to manage this problem, is to allow users to exclude certain sites, certain "types" of sites and also certain keyworks, to simply block content from even getting to them.

This, and the user to user trust features of faveeo.com would make it very difficult for users to easily get their page in front of millions of readers.

What do you think, do you see a conflict of interest about the search engines spam fighting policy? What do you think would be the best idea to solve this conflict of interest?