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You know, I keep reading this stuff on self-hosting, and it gave me an idea that has nothing to do with this original post. I think you'll like the idea, though

You know, I keep reading this stuff on self-hosting, and it gave me an idea that has nothing to do with this original post. I think you'll like the idea, though. Imagine an AI kind of program that: - determines the cheapest, most capable hosting provider - determines the top 20 trending niches and randomly picks one - determines the best available domain name for that trending niche - uses a credit card and sets itself up with hosting - finds trending content and through synonymizers writes short summaries about it and links to it - signs up for and uses multiple ad networks until it can find the most lucrative top three for the content it serves and rotates these three - every week, broadcasts a link about itself to other social bookmarking and social networking sites - automatically uses whitehat SEO techniques to try and increase its page rank - within three months, reproduces itself to build yet another site like that - after 12 months, sells that copy on flippa.com automatically The only thing it needs is a credit card and someone to respond to captchas or click the Submit on a form it suggests. Each new owner merely sits back and collects the profit. It's a self-aware affiliate marketing system. Pretty funny, eh? However, it also would be pretty interesting to watch.

seldo 17y ago
In other words, Artificial Intelligence will be the inadvertent result of Google's war with search spammers. Google will get better and better at detecting non-human generated content until robots are generating such high-quality content that we won't be able to tell -- or care -- that it's generated by robots. P.S. I am that robot.
clistctrl 17y ago
I've never seen this Flippa site before, does anyone have experience with it? A few of the sites look really bad, but I can see potential in fixing them up.
patio11 17y ago
Add in cheap Indians, replace "white hat" with "black hat" (comment spamming, etc), and make it massively parallel across tens of thousands of sites, and you have a lot of modern SEO operations on the seedier side of the tracks. Many of them are one-man operations (aside from the team of outsourcers). His job is strategic direction (identifying sources of keywords to build spam sites for, etc), conducting the outsourcing symphony, sometimes a bit of programming, and cashing the big checks. On the less seedy side of the market Demand Media is essentially a corporation representing a collaborative endeavor between an AI and a million monkeys with typewriters.

seldo 17y ago

In other words, Artificial Intelligence will be the inadvertent result of Google's war with search spammers. Google will get better and better at detecting non-human generated content until robots are generating such high-quality content that we won't be able to tell -- or care -- that it's generated by robots. P.S. I am that robot.

clistctrl 17y ago

I've never seen this Flippa site before, does anyone have experience with it? A few of the sites look really bad, but I can see potential in fixing them up.

patio11 17y ago

Add in cheap Indians, replace "white hat" with "black hat" (comment spamming, etc), and make it massively parallel across tens of thousands of sites, and you have a lot of modern SEO operations on the seedier side of the tracks. Many of them are one-man operations (aside from the team of outsourcers). His job is strategic direction (identifying sources of keywords to build spam sites for, etc), conducting the outsourcing symphony, sometimes a bit of programming, and cashing the big checks. On the less seedy side of the market Demand Media is essentially a corporation representing a collaborative endeavor between an AI and a million monkeys with typewriters.