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He's saying that the mass-produced crap "content" sites will all dominate the search result listings and push all the quality content sites out of business beca
by henrikschroder 17y ago
He's saying that the mass-produced crap "content" sites will all dominate the search result listings and push all the quality content sites out of business because noone will visit them.
But we're not using search engines to get to every place on the web. We learn where the quality content is, we don't rely on generic portals for news and articles. We learn which blogs are good. We get sites recommended by our friends. We find sites and bookmark them and revisit if they're good.
- brandnewlow 17y agoHN reader's discovery methods != those of the vast majority of the population
- mattmcknight 17y agoHe still has the old school media mindset that the scoop is the important thing, and he wants respect for being the first one to find out something. Of course, the fact that he's a prime source for the echo chamber means things seem like they have more sources than they do.
- coliveira 17y agoBut the problem for sites like TC is not that people won't find good news using HN-like sites. The problem is that will not be making money through Google search. You have to understand that people going to TC through HN or Digg means nothing for them. These people don't click on ads, they are there just to read news and click away. The money is made on people that click through a Google link, because these are the ones that are looking for something specific and ready to click on an ad. So the problem he is talking about is that is getting harder to get into Google, since sites like eHow are flooding Google with all this dubious content.