In 2011 and 2012, Google introduced sweeping updates to minimize low-quality, thin content on its search results. However, there seems to be a new type of ‘spam’ that is more subtle but also annoying: user-contributed content, also known as content farms. For the sake of simplicity, assume there are three types of sites: Sites run… Continue reading Guest/User-Contributed Content is Clogging Google
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Post-2008 Themes
Lately there has been a plethora of these ‘how-world-is-changing’ type articles on social news sites, and they seem to do well, as measured by comments, interactions, and shares, so here is another one: The Crisis of the Blue Model Within a decade … between a third and a half of the current employees in finance… Continue reading Post-2008 Themes