Comments on: Bots, Aggregation and Content Creation

By: feedbuzzard | Maximize your Adsense Earnings

feedbuzzard | Maximize your Adsense Earnings — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:47:50 +0000

Google is well aware of these fly by night spam artists, but they are a moving target, and expensive to keep up with.

That is why they are giving us the tools to report them now. They need all the help they can get.

I for one have no problem reporting abuse where I see it. From there, Google can decide.

I think we are all responsible in making the world (and the web) a better place.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:57:06 +0000

Well, as a writer I do gag at this sort of thing. But when words are monetized (by AdSense), it’s an invitation to skew them anyhow to maximize returns. That’s how business works. We shouldn’t complain, especially if we benefit ourselves from the system.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 10:46:13 +0000

Google News already subscribes to major blogs.

By: Allan Burns

Allan Burns — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:55:36 +0000

These sorts of software are almost always used for spam like content creation. The aggregation of RSS feeds can be done properly to offer a value added service to web visitors.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:44:58 +0000

Wait until the Google News’ “bot” starts aggregating from major blogs in addition to news sources… then it’ll be interesting.