The pages are of no value to the end user and are designed purely to usurp traffic from search engines and shit that traffic out through affiliate links. Instead of getting reviews that matter when you search you get spam tainting the results and getting in your way.
You are fundamentally misunderstanding spam when you relate it to what Google and LinkedIn do. What Google does is sift through this shit trying to find the right answer to whatever question. What LinkedIn does has no relevance at all.
I never said that linkedin or google were spamming. All I was saying is that they are slightly evil and annoying. I'm also not sure I agree with your assessment of the techcrunch reviews.
By my count the company fronting the content has something like ~100 million machine-generated pages polluting the internet as of 6 months ago, being hosted and re-hosted under dozens of different domains. At what point does it become spam in your opinion?
You are fundamentally misunderstanding spam when you relate it to what Google and LinkedIn do. What Google does is sift through this shit trying to find the right answer to whatever question. What LinkedIn does has no relevance at all.