Comments on: Why Google and Demand Media Are Headed for a Showdown

By: Google Lets You Block Sites From Search Results | donmcarthur.com

Google Lets You Block Sites From Search Results | donmcarthur.com — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:16:37 +0000

[...] 3.5 or higher). The new feature only applies more pressure on so-called content farms, which are increasingly being targeted by Google, Blekko and [...]

By: Google Employs Users to Help Spot, Block Spam Sites Sites: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:10:53 +0000

[...] is concluding that if people are so up in arms about its perceived declining search results, then it will let the masses get to work in helping refine its search technology. The company [...]

By: Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » Customer Service and the Future of Publishing

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:15:12 +0000

[...] When I saw Dan on the Mac version I did the requisite Google search for an answer and got the usual spam-filled and out-of-date search [...]

By: Former Owner of eHow Says Demand Media Model Is Flawed: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:36:02 +0000

[...] value of more than $1.5 billion. Much of that attention has been less than favorable, however, focusing on Demand’s status as a “content farm” that produces huge volumes of disposable, low-quality articles that are designed primarily to show [...]

By: AOL Chases Eyeballs As Core Business Disintegrates: Tech News and Analysis «

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:33:59 +0000

[...] A big part of that effort is generating massive amounts of content and then trying to monetize it via Google AdWords and other search-based advertising — at least according to a leaked strategy document. It’s not clear when the document was written, but it describes how the company is banking on increasing the number of stories it runs per month by more than 60 percent over the next four months, to 55,000, and hoping to increase the number of pageviews per story by more than 400 percent to 7,000. Writers at the company are expected to write between 5 and 10 stories per day, and story selection is to be driven by analyzing search traffic to see what kind of content people want to read about — exactly the same strategy taken by Demand Media. [...]

By: The Future of Search: Who Will Win The Spam Wars? Balakrishnan V K - Balakrishnan V K

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:45:38 +0000

[...] few before it from notable people like Jeff Atwood), including New York Magazine, Business Insider, GigaOm, TechCrunch, CNN, and The Wall Street [...]

By: The Future of Search: Who Will Win The Spam Wars? | BrettMBell.com

The Future of Search: Who Will Win The Spam Wars? | BrettMBell.com — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:04:52 +0000

[...] few before it from notable people like Jeff Atwood), including New York Magazine, Business Insider, GigaOm, TechCrunch, CNN, and The Wall Street [...]

By: Tired of Advertising? Get a Private Network : Odysen Blog

Tired of Advertising? Get a Private Network : Odysen Blog — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:11:28 +0000

[...] some observations from a recent article on GigaOm that raised a number of interesting points, of which I’ve highlighted just a couple I [...]

By: Did Google Just Declare War on Demand Media?: Tech News and Analysis «

Did Google Just Declare War on Demand Media?: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:24:00 +0000

[...] we discussed recently, the criticisms about Google’s results — from tech analysts such as Bloomberg blogger [...]

By: Page Is Back as CEO, But is That What Google Really Needs?: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:23:57 +0000

[...] are also getting more vocal about the rapid deterioration of Google’s search results, its core business, thanks in part to the contributions of “content farms” such as [...]