Why Demand Media's Content Farm Model Is All Wrong http://www.businessinsider.com/why-curation-may-spell-the-end-of-search-algorithms-2011-1/comments.rss?IR=T en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:18:28 -0400 Guillaume Decugis http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d3f6e8a4bd7c81c7d030000 Al Sefati Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:44:58 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d3f6e8a4bd7c81c7d030000 I have often found ehow's information very useful and a few times linked to it from my blog so I don't know if i gree if all of their strategy is wrong. d http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d30151ccadcbb9559490000 gdecugis Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:19:24 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d30151ccadcbb9559490000 @Zach Sorry you seemed to get take it personally or understood I meant all DM content is bad. My point was that the DM model puts more focus on SEO than quality: it doesn't prevent excellent pieces to be produced by DM writers or freelancers. Agreed. I read the post you linked and it adds to the quality debate. Thanks for sharing it. But it wasn't so much what was interesting to me (yes DM will improve quality over time and yes, as I wrote, they might be successful) than the dialectic between an algorithm-based Web a what some call the Human Web. And by the way, I think this is not so much a content creation thing rather than a content distribution and curation challenge. Writers believing in quality content should be pleased about the raise of human or social curation as it will favor quality pieces against poor quality ones written with only SEO in mind. And they should encourage it ! http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2f24984bd7c88610570000 Zach Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:13:12 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2f24984bd7c88610570000 I honestly stopped reading after the comment about poor quality. I write for DMS and while some articles get through which aren't the best, for the most part the poor quality criticism is based on misconceptions. I would encourage anyone who wants to argue with me about that to read my recent piece, <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6162528/debunking_misconceptions_about_demand.html?cat=31">Debunking Misconceptions About Demand Media Studios</a>. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2edbdbcadcbb126e4a0000 gdecugis Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:02:51 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2edbdbcadcbb126e4a0000 Interesting! Didn't know about DMOZ. But you're right, the balance seems to be always shifting one way or the other in an ongoing cycle. There's actually another interesting SAI post about that here: "Google's Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation" http://bit.ly/fjMnnP http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2e5136cadcbb715f070000 Greg Lindahl Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:11:18 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d2e5136cadcbb715f070000 The democratization of curation started with DMOZ, the Open Directory Project, which was successful at recruiting 10s of thousands of volunteer editors and building a curated directory much larger than Yahoo's. This was before algorithmic search become king. DMOZ went on to rot from neglect, but it was the first time that a volunteer group created a large database, long before Wikipedia. Blekko is betting that the time is right to approach search from both an algorithmic and curated angle. All of our founders were part of DMOZ.
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