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Isn't regurgitating content from elsewhere and slapping ads on it, is a content farm? Wikipedia can be a notable exception in that they've never served commerci

• VladRussian 16y ago
  >Isn't regurgitating content from elsewhere how about Wikipedia's "no original research" policy? DemandMedia supposedly pays their authors for writing the pieces - which supposedly means original content. Don't get me wrong. I'm not equaling current Wikipedia and their overall great goal with DemandMedia. I'm just wondering - if the content farm hunt happened several years ago how would Wikipedia survived it. >and slapping ads on it well, i'm for one would like it if search engines rated lower any web pages with ads - more ads (like page real estate taken) - more scores taken out. It is like with Congressmen - more money in donations from Shell - less my trust that the Congressmen will support any anti-global warming efforts.
  • gwern 16y ago
    > how about Wikipedia's "no original research" policy? DemandMedia supposedly pays their authors for writing the pieces - which supposedly means original content. I think you're equivocating over 'original' here. On Wikipedia, it means that everything you write is either directly sourced to another work or basic connective prose and obvious trivial inferences; it's a matter of citations and verification. With DemandMedia it simply means that the prose hasn't appeared elsewhere.
• nanijoe 16y ago
  >Isn't regurgitating content from elsewhere and slapping ads on it, is a content farm? Would that not then make Google the number 1 content farm in the world?
• byrneseyeview 16y ago
  Surely that's not the complaint, here. Holding quality constant, ads will make a site better--for a low-quality site, they'll provide links to people who can actually solve whatever problem the site purports to solve, while for high-quality sites they help pay the bills.