I don't think it would be an issue if Google wasn't creating "special" rules for specific winners and losers (overall). Hell, I really wish they'd make it easy to individually exclude certain domains from results.
The canonical example to me of something to exclude would be the expertsexchange site. After stack overflow, ee was more than useless, and even before it was just annoying. There are lots of sites with paywalls, and other obfuscations to content and imho these sites are the ones that should be dropped/low-ranked.
But the fact that there's no autocomplete for "Hillary Clinton is|has" (though "Donald Trump is" is also filtered). Yes, it's been heavily gamed. It's also had active meddling. And their control over YouTube seems to be even worse, with disclosed documents/video that indicate they're willing to go so far as outright election manipulation. With all indications that Facebook, Pinterest and others are going the same route.
The canonical example to me of something to exclude would be the expertsexchange site. After stack overflow, ee was more than useless, and even before it was just annoying. There are lots of sites with paywalls, and other obfuscations to content and imho these sites are the ones that should be dropped/low-ranked.
But the fact that there's no autocomplete for "Hillary Clinton is|has" (though "Donald Trump is" is also filtered). Yes, it's been heavily gamed. It's also had active meddling. And their control over YouTube seems to be even worse, with disclosed documents/video that indicate they're willing to go so far as outright election manipulation. With all indications that Facebook, Pinterest and others are going the same route.