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Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million in Funding
Tumblr has just announced another healthy influx of cash — $5 million from Spark and Union Square Ventures — nearly doubling the $5.2 million raised in A and B rounds of financing. The popular...
View ArticleYouTube Goes After Higher Quality Content and Footage
YouTube has said that it will be sponsoring higher quality content and supporting ultra-high quality digital video. These two announcements come just days after the launch of the beta version of...
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How Will Quora Handle Being Both Twitter and Wikipedia?
You’ve probably noticed that Quora has been getting a lot of press here in early 2011. As a result, the site is getting a lot of new users. As a result of that, there is growing concern that Quora...
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Demand Media CEO: Google Not Talking About Us
Last week, Google’s Matt Cutts put up a blog post talking about a shift in focus to content farms, which he defines as "sites with shallow or low-quality content". Most people that read this assumed...
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DuckDuckGo Follows Content Farm Banning With Promoting wikiHow Content
Today, DuckDuckGo has started "hard wiring" wikiHow as the first result on its search engine results pages for how-to queries. wikiHow founder Jack Herrick (who also ran eHow before selling to Demand...
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Leave Explicit SERP Feedback for Google
Google is on the hunt for content farms – sites with shallow or low quality content – announcing the release of an experimental Chrome extension for people to block sites from appearing in their Web...
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Demand Media: We're "Very White Hat"
Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, speaking on an earnings call today, took to defending his company’s content, which is often subject to a great deal of criticism, though I would contend that much...
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Did Google's Algorithm Update Go Far Enough on Content Farms?
As you probably know by now, Google has implemented a new algorithm change that the company says impacts 11.8% of their queries. While Google would not come out and say directly that the update is...
View ArticleGoogle Panda Update: New Advice Directly From Google
Google’s Panda update left a slew of victims in the wake of its warpath (the war, of course being on shallow and low-quality content). While Google has dropped some hints here and there on its...
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