Chris French and Helen Johnson wrote:
and entries from the comparison shopping sites and the like.
They are becoming a pain, coming up with some way to filter these out
would be very useful. It's not so much the comparison sites as the ones
that are basically just pages of links related to your search term that
pee me off.

I've written to Google about this several times in recent years, but had
no sensible response. I think that thier search ranking method
(counting links from other sites) is sensitive to being dominated by
this sort of thing, and since it was thier great innovation they are
reluctant to tinker with it.