Demand Media downplays effect of Google’s algorithmic changes

Demand Media, arguably the largest target of Google's recent algorithmic changes aimed at "content farms," has downplayed the effects of the search engine's edits on the traffic of their properties. The company concedes that eHow's traffic has been ... continue

Personal Blocklist extension functionality becomes official Google function

You no longer need to use the Personal Blocklist extension to remove unsavory sites from your Google search results. Google has introduced another weapon in the war against "low-quality content," this time rolling the functionality of the above-mentioned Chrome extension ... continue

Google happy so far with results of content farm crackdown

Though several sites have seen marked (like 80% marked) downturns in traffic since Google got publicly tough on "content farms," the search engine giant says that they are pleased with the change in search results following the ... continue

Demand Media Addresses Google Content Farm Algorithm, Doesn’t Seemed Worried

Yesterday I wrote a post in which I defended the practices of Demand Media and their child company Demand Studios when put up against the new Google Content Farm algorithm. In that post I stated that while ... continue

Google Declares War On Content Farms, Releases New Algorithm

In an attempt to make first page search results more useful for search users, Google today announced that they have implemented their new "content farm algorithm" which attempts to eliminate websites from Google search when they copy ... continue

Google adds content farm-busting Chrome extension

Google has followed up on the recent noises it made regarding search algorithms and much-maligned content farms with the release of a new extension for Chrome that blocks the mostly-useless content from Google search results. The extension cleverly ... continue

Google aims to reduce ‘low quality’ results from content farms

In response to a spate of criticism about what is basically spam in Google search results, a post on Google's official blog last week suggests that the search engine giant is planning on taking a harder line ... continue

Report: Demand Media bringing cheap content to Hearst

Demand Media, an online content mill that pays an army of work at home moms and the like notoriously low rates to churn out a huge amount of content based on search trends, has inked a deal ... continue

The supersizing of content; or how we are turning the Web into an obese mess

Back in October Duncan and I went kind of head-to-head over a content spewing machine called Demand Media. While I pretty well called the whole business idea as being on the scummy side Duncan disagreed saying that ... continue

Why Demand Media is Good

This time last week, our own Steven Hodson wrote a post describing Demand Media as "the Myspace of online content." Despite rumors to the contrary by some against this site, we do open editorial, and sometimes that ... continue

Demand Media – the Myspace of online content, or blogging by the numbers

Right from the top I have to own up to the fact that part of the post headline is a direct rip from Robert X Cringely' post the other day about what has to be the scummiest ... continue