This "typos, grammatical errors, and a general lack of polish and punch in the writing." - reminded me of something I had considered some years ago...

A time when I read google was ranking edu type sites higher, and blogs lower... I noticed more news sites in top results and mayo clinic types..

It dawned on me that it would be a convenient truth to point to a bunch of 'high brow signals' to justify sanitizing results a bit - and that this would be a slippery slop slide into censoring lots of adult stories and other entertainment, while also playing into the bigger companies that can afford to spend the adwords money.

Could be good reasons for this (less public pressure to remove the porn and such) - could be nefarious, censor the web for users and cater to those who can afford to pay the big bucks, less companies to contend with content questions - while not be transparent to the users and content creators.

This allows big money to influence the results via ads easier, and limits choice - those publishers who spend a lot of time creating content are cast aside, even though one side of the big G keeps saying 'create good content you will soar to the top'.

I think we, er they, big G especially, crossed a threshold of being able to determine intent more often than not and so the need to filter search results for 'how to have sex' and 'watch free sex' for example are different and can be, and should be handled differently.

I know they are handled differently to a degree, I feel it's important to point out that these two different intentional searches should show results even much more different than they are.

The first one would likely benefit from ranking higher sites that meet a lot of the points on the pdf manual checkers document and other factors for trust rank and what have you. However I think the other kind of sexual entertainment searches would actually benefit from not using many of those factors in the ranking process.

I believe you will find many professional sex people do not advertise their address on every page of their site, and many do not use real names in order to make it harder for bad things to happen to these people. For example.

I also think the need for perfect grammar and such is much less when people are looking for erotic entertainment. Millions of penthouse stories magazines have sold over the (pre-internet, get that stuff free via searches from content indexers, years) - and I am pretty sure that if every story had perfect grammar like it was written for a college thesis, that they would not have sold as well month after month for years.

If you combine this with the type of grammar and spelling you see a majority of people using via textual communique - look at Insta, fbk, snap... people expect, engage with, react with, and continue to pursue content that is not grammar and spelling perfect.

I'd go so far as to say that a majority of people in the US at least (?) are actually mostly trying to find more crude discussions and writing styles, and it's a much smaller amount of people searching daily for phd level high brow perfection.

Of course this is different when looking for electrical engineering searches, and even searches for putting together prefab furniture - they are definitely searches where you want things to be accurate and no fluff, no extra personality needed.

Given that I believe this to be obvious to most, and that we do not have the computer systems of 1991 running the search giants, I believe that they know they could provide tons more content that browser reporting behavior would show that people enjoy and are looking for - yet they choose to use some of these trust rank things to censor bigger portions of the net for various reasons.

Hey, I'm a big believer in private companies doing what they want - I just think transparency is seriously lacking with big G - why not be honest about how many semi-good sites are not being shown because google is employing new content filters?

We used to see this chilling effects notices regularly, and some results show that X number of pages or sites are not being shown due to dmca requests... but being honest about how many sex chat sites google use to show in the results, and how they have pushed many good ones down and many more straight out of the index.. we don't see any posts about that.

Sadly, for many people the internet is what google shows it is. I understand there are many in the world who think whatever if on fcbook is the entire internet. Well if things are being removed from these platforms and it's not being understood - then it's a huge disservice to humanity, imho. It's closer to people learning with today's tools may never find Mark Twain and others for they are not perfect in the eyes of the elite.