Comments on: Demand Media: Search Spam or the Future of Content?

By: Kareem

Kareem — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:56:47 +0000

I find eHow’s model brilliant, and I don’t see their articles as spam, sure some articles are totally useless but many of them actually help ordinary people with everyday problems.

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Tech, Startups, Capital, Ideas. » Building Great Products — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:48:06 +0000

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Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:03:00 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:00:19 +0000

It seems that as people depend on search for finding quality results, if those results are producing worse quality, the search engine is also flawed. However, in near monopoly environments where everyone just makes a choice without thinking, maybe the results over time just get worse and worse without anything noticeable for most users.

Makes you wonder how bad it’s already gotten, how much farther to go before eventually getting better. Maybe the IPO will be a good thing to shed some real light on the activities, we’ll see.

By: David Card

David Card — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:06:51 +0000

Matt: I suspect there will always be varying degrees of quality in content, with the appropriate business models to drive them. As someone who gets paid to write, I hope the market will support “high-end” products. I confess I’m nervous about investigative journalism, and hope it doesn’t have to rely on the kindness of strangers and well-heeled families alone.

Paul: Google should do what’s right for its business – I’m not worried that it will figure out how to properly weight quality in its results in time. I’m more worried about your health, though….

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:41:24 +0000

Do Google have a duty to take Demand Media content farms, such as eHow, out of their index?

I went to the doctor recently, who used an eHow article (via a Google search) to diagnose me! Scary scary stuff…

http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/blog/nhs-show-support-for-demand-media-ehow-against-google-attack/

Paul

By: Matt Bamford-Bowes

Matt Bamford-Bowes — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:39:38 +0000

I think there are potentially alot of differences between the way Demand Media do content, and the way content should be done. I recently did an interview with Andy Chen, CEO of Preview Networks and got his thoughts on this.

You can check it out on my blog, but Andy raises really salient points about what content should be, who should maintain quality etc.

http://digigen.co.uk/2011/01/31/the-future-of-content-andy-chen-ceo-of-preview-networks/