yeah it's pretty bad. just wondering if there'll be 'professional videobloggers' like the 'professional bloggers' who write on similar sites with paid-for-content. or maybe they're trying to be bought by google & won't care if they're then shutdown? the pay is very low, but it's a lot for people in some countries who work online.
2009/10/29 Rupert Howe <[email protected]> > > > Jesus, this is horrible. Any company that produces instructional > spam, paying minimum wage for media production, in order to get their > videos listed at the top of Google's results, will die a nasty and > expensive death. One of Google's highest priorities is defeating spam > in listings. And SEO is a terrible thing to have to rely on. A few > weeks ago, a friend was telling me a story about when Yahoo bought > Kelkoo, a shopping comparison site that used to appear at the top of > all Google listings. The next day, Google shut down all Kelkoo's > listings. Their traffic completely died overnight. Eventually, > Kelkoo signed a deal for Google paid ads... > > This company (Demand Media) is counting on Google ranking video > content high in their listings. Forgetting that this is because a) > Google owns YouTube; b) most video is organically submitted to the web > and linked to and commented on by *people*; and c) whatever the > medium, Google hates shitty mass-produced content whose only aim is to > trick Google into giving it a good ranking, so they can make money > from advertising. > > Maybe you're right - maybe the next generation will move into this > kind of content production work - but hopefully not for these kind of > rates, with this kind of unsustainable business model. > > > On 29-Oct-09, at 6:23 AM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: > > > anyone seen this? > > http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia > > > > is it the video-production version of Amazon's mechanical turk / > > sweatshop? > > or workers for the library in Snow Crash? > > maybe these will be the sorts of jobs the next generation will move > > into > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- http://www.aliak.com http://www.brisbanedancepartiesarchive.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
