The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.
Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that’d do it.
I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.