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On the one hand: Demand Media seek to produce huge amounts of content that is just good enough to be the most relevant content for any given long-tail search t
by mquander 16y ago
On the one hand:
Demand Media seek to produce huge amounts of content that is just good enough to be the most relevant content for any given long-tail search term.
On the other hand:
If you know how to form a search query then you can find better content most of the time...
Which is it, is Demand Media the most relevant content, or is there better content? If there's better content, then Google is failing users.
I'm pretty sure that there is better content corresponding to every single piece of information that a Demand writer has ever posted online.
- jleader 16y agojdietrich is saying that DM's content is most relevant for particular long-tail search terms; if you edit your query to an apparently equivalent search term, you can find more relevant content. Presumably, as Google's query re-writing gets better, DM's niche (queries that are failing to return good content) will get squeezed out.
- al_james 16y agoGoogle is failing its users. Google is a machine, its does not have human intelligence. Google falls for simple SEO techniques, so that the first results for a query represent those site owners who best play the SEO game. This is not a dig at Google, indeed its much better than it used to be, its just that its a machine with defined rules and will therefore fall foul of tricks (even if the tricks keep changing). This is why Goole need to be scared of Facebook, as Facebook looks likely to be the first business to successfully implement a human recommendation level into search.
- eru 16y agoDidn't Yahoo start out with human recommendations?
- muddylemon 16y ago> successfully