I never even heard of Demand Media until recently. Could not tell you a single site they operate. Apparently they are going to ruin the blog world. Yeah, maybe the blog world deserves to be ruined.
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What do you think of Ars Technica, Loren?
Finally, someone mentioned Mahalo when talking about all this.
I have to say though, the funniest thing for me is the fact that this is news now that there are prominent players in the game, like AOL (Seed), Demand Media, Mahalo, Huffpo, etc. Meanwhile, this search engine play stuff has been going on for years – mass producing content based on the top and popular search terms.
It’s laughable. It’ll all blow over in a few days and maybe 3 months down the road some news site will hit the topic again in an effort to bring the controversy to the forefront and get a temporary pageview bump. People will freak out again.
That cycle only goes to show why companies like Demand Media are so successful – people’s attention span online is like that of a goldfish – swimming around the fish bowl and forgetting everything they saw the last time around.
And the whole time, the semi-automated content mill is still churning out tens of thousands of pages a day, millions collectively.
The low volume, high cost blogs and news sites are only concerned because Wal-Mart is moving to town.
Nicely put.
The best SEO play ever..
PS DONKEY
Well put.
Hey 1938media … you should sell ad space on your sweatshirt.
my blog is for me. so i never get into a sweat whenever i see something like this coming along. (aside – i’d like to see how many of these bloggers come back to this in 10, 20 years time and look back, see what they think about it then..) you’re right though. you need to be really on the game to get anywhere on the net these days. every man and his dog wants to be internet famous. …
This is the third mention I’v seen about Demand Media and their algo generated topic farm and content assembly line. At the end of the day, (as far as content goes) what matters is if the viewer/user had a good experience with the content they found. In the case of Deman Media’s content it’s “did the how-to video/article teach me to, well…how to do it?”
I think the real issue is when Wired reports on Google/YouTube privately calling Demand Media, telling them they have a lot of ad inventory and need more content to run them on so we can both make $$$. WHAT?? So that backroom deal could be worth millions of Adsense dollars to Demand Media and Google/YouTube and the rest of us YouTube Partners (yes, “Partners”) get left out in the cold. That is ridiculous.
Loren @1938Media doesn’t mattah?
What mattahs is “Generic garbage headline-based content” LMAO! “A machine + some hack can do it just as good as you!”
ROFLMFAO!!!
GooTards + TwitTards will believe in + buy ANY bullshit, won’t they?!?
Goo + Tweedle Dee are laughing all the way to the bank, and NewsTards even think this is a neat-o business plan?!?
LOLOLOLOLOL… !!!
nmw
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[...] easily sympathize with, are also slightly ironic. As well-known skeptic Loren Feldman points out in a vlog, many of the blogs bashing Demand Media and its ilk have themselves been called out for producing [...]