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"Under Google’s new algorithm, code-named Panda, companies that produced lots of content got penalized"

Hahaha! Yeah, let me fix that for you: "companies that produced lots of useless, worthless, trash content got penalized".

Good for Google, good for everyone, screw Demand media for ad-filled "content farms" on crappy domains like 3d-blueray-players.com".

Even eHow and Livestrong are borderline spammy, although they do have enough good content to make them popular (and they are).

Should've focused on quality content while they were a $2 billion company instead of whining about it now.

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Speaking of junky content: http://imgur.com/a/zUaPG

Is that on a tablet?

Anyway, I hate when they do that - Instructables is the first one that comes to mind (they offer a paid subscription for viewing articles on a single page).

They're charging for convenience and the ability to download a tutorial in pdf format, it's not like user experience is sabotaged for everyone. Assuming they don't get enough revenue from advertising, it's a decent monetization strategy.

They're not actually impeding anyone from viewing content, say for instance like Quora blurring posts or similar.

Nothing wrong with that, I wished people were more understanding of how companies sometimes need to do mildly unpleasant things in order to keep a product afloat so that everyone can enjoy it. Some of the things on Instructables are pretty awesome, especially a few years ago I would've had a very hard time in finding an equivalent for their various technology tutorials.

Nothing wrong with it, it's just mildly unpleasant having to scroll through multiple pages, and the membership isn't quite worth it if you only view an article once in a blue moon...

i think the problem here is "hate" and "mildly unpleasant" sit oddly together...

People use "hate" to mean "mildly unpleasant" all the time. "I hate it when i just barely miss the bus" or "I hate it when the package is so hard to open I spill most of the sauce in the process of opening the package" or the like.

At least instructables usually has decent content, even if there are many pages for non-paying users.

It is sad that most people do not pay for things unless you poke them a bit.

This. eHow has 3.1 million results listed in Google. Stackoverflow has 6.7 million results listed (6.2 million questions per their site). Stack's traffic of course just keeps growing.

Pretty weak article overall.

"This." ? This what? I'm wondering if, in the future, you might expand just a little bit so when we're reading your response we could have some insight into what, in particular, you agree with, other than, "This."

Does anybody search for "3d bluray players?"

Around 500 searches per month in the US and 300 searches per month in the UK, according to Google. Have a bunch of these ugly sites with redirects to Amazon or other stores and you had a nice profit with little investment.

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