Content farms enjoying success on Google News
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on August 23, 2010 at 12:15 PM
Content farms have come under more criticism for their lower quality
articles that are tailored to what people are searching for and produced
by low-paid freelancers, as they continue to produce vast amounts of content and dominate online search results with their advanced use of SEO. Scott Rosenburg, cofounder of Salon, lamented the appearance of an Associated Content article as the top recommendation following one of his Google searches. Looking to find out more about the resignation of Dr Laura Schlessinger from her radio show over a racial slur, he entered 'dr. laura n-word' into Google. The Associated Content story came up first in the Google News results, followed by one from the Washington Post and then one from Media Matters for America, a blog.
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articles that are tailored to what people are searching for and produced
by low-paid freelancers, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2010/07/content_farming_are_news_outlets_under_t.php">as they continue to produce vast amounts of content and dominate online search results with their advanced use of SEO</a>. <br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"></span>Scott Rosenburg, cofounder of Salon, <a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/scott_rosenberg/2010/08/20/dr_laura_associated_content_and_the_googledammerung">lamented the appearance of an Associated Content article </a>as the top recommendation following one of his Google searches. Looking to find out more about the resignation of Dr Laura Schlessinger
from her radio show over a racial slur, he entered 'dr. laura n-word'
into Google. The Associated Content story came up first in the Google News results, followed by one from the Washington Post and then one from Media Matters for America, a blog. <br /><br /><i>For more on this story, visit our sister publication, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/08/content_farms_enjoying_google_news.php">editorsweblog.org</a>.</i><br /> &title=Content farms enjoying success on Google News){kind=link}
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