If google really ranks based on users experience then why....

[takethebluepill]

Check out any of the spam attracting keywords, like those in the pharmacy field or financial fields, and you will see that a large number of the top ranking sites employ redirects. i.e. the page that is shown to google is completely different from the page that is shown to the visitor.

So, if google really does base ranking heavily on bounce rate, interaction with page and other quality measures, how do these sites continue to rank when google should be able to record that the visitor spends only a fraction of a second on the original page before being bounced somewhere else?

[420]

They know how to trick googlebot into thinking their site is the best.

[Barry-xlovecam]

What spam words specifically?

I checked Cialis and pay day loans and those terms had lots of AdWords in the results

[JosephFM]

Fuck the google!

[Barry-xlovecam]

BRUSSELS ? The European Union?s antitrust chief on Wednesday sought to bring the American Internet giant Google to heel, accusing the company of abusing its dominance in web searches to the detriment of competitors.

It is the first time that antitrust charges have been brought against Google, and the action raises pressure on the company to address complaints that a previous European commissioner allowed to play out for five years without resolution.

Looking ahead to another big digital market that Google dominates, the antitrust official, Margrethe Vestager, opened an investigation into whether the company?s Android smartphone software forces phone makers to favor Google?s own services and applications over competitors? ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/bu...case.html?_r=0

The SERPs you see are really the answer to this accusation and the Google new front-line defense -- the "we done nuffin'" defense concluding: "we aint dat smart!" .

Google's lawyers may counsel a partial retreat and dog-house self flagellation of the search giant until this blows over. To come out swinging will only have the EU and possibly other governmental agencies (US FCC and DOJ) aggressively set out to cut off Google's balls (I mean water )

[John.]

"Pump and dump" black hat SEO. Those sites usually only rank for few days, if not hours.

[Paz]

Some of the biggest scams (in the UK) are making Google money;
Google searches and public-service scams | Money | The Guardian

Google was busted for "selling drugs" online a few years back.

[PAR]

Some of the biggest scams (in the UK) are making Google money;
Google searches and public-service scams | Money | The Guardian

Google was busted for "selling drugs" online a few years back.

After a friend was taken by a scam online when they were looking to get a new birth cert sent to them. I checked the search term they used and saw the site they used was paying for the listing..

After contacting google about it and a few email exchanges they did nothing the ad stayed live, the host killed the site (and others) after 2 day apologizing for the delay in action.

This was not the first or the last time I've contacted google to have action taken about phishing etc sites using paid search listing.. To date google has yet to stop 1 offending ad yet 100% of the sites have been turned off by ICANN, Host etc..

[beerptrol]

All google gives a shit about is getting paid!

[JFK]

All google gives a shit about is getting paid!

Yup, Its all about the money