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If you found a cure for cancer and only put it on a website, maybe noone would find it. But if you also mentioned it to a few people (especially a doctor or ca

• DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  It might and it might not. That's the thing -- sure, perhaps all good ideas get great publicity and links simply because they're good ideas. And perhaps all good business ideas make their owners lots of money simply because they're good ideas. And perhaps all articles get referenced and linked based on their degree of usefulness to the world. But in the real world, somebody has to go out and peddle ideas. That's marketing, sales, networking -- whatever you want to call it. Nowadays google is forcing us to go comment on other people's blogs, link-trade, and lord knows what else. Good ideas simply don't always become popular simply because they're good and you tell a few people. It takes a lot more work than that.
• pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  Unless the doctor copied it to their website and told the media about that website instead ... simple isn't it.