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I consider Jason a friend (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/), a very smart guy, and a great e
by spolsky 17y ago
I consider Jason a friend (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/), a very smart guy, and a great entrepreneur, although I have a different philosophy than he does on how to build a Q&A site.
- tptacek 17y agoSo then, do you think that Mahalo has a bum rap? Because the rep they have here is pretty close to "Google spammer".
- spolsky 17y agoI do the best I can not to comment on competitors, although I can't always live up to my ideal. There are a lot of companies built on the business model of making low-cost, low-quality pages for long-tail Google search results, either algorithmically or with low-paid humans. There's clearly an arbitrage opportunity there, providing some kind of semi-crappy web page on a topic so narrow that there isn't anything on the web yet, but low quality content doesn't interest me at all.
- gnaritas 17y ago> low-cost, low-quality pages for long-tail Google search results It's called spamming. Mahalo is spam, Jason is a spammer; friend or not that's simply what he does.