The Downside

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How do you manage a business when the very thing that makes money for you hurts your profits at the same time? This is the dilemma that Google has been struggling with several years now, and it’s not likely to go away soon.
Imagine if you will that you are a content publisher, say, an [...]

If you’re old enough, you may remember a little web directory called Yahoo. Yes, back before it was a search engine in the current sense of the word, and long before you could “google� anything besides your Math 1B T.A. Yahoo’s web directory was assembled by “surfers� who theoretically spent the day scouring [...]

Over the past ten years we have witnessed an evolution in web search. The first-generation search engines like AltaVista, Excite, and Yahoo all indexed the web and gave back results primarily based on the words that were on a web page. If you searched for “lemurs�, these engines would look for pages that [...]

Over the past couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that Google is no longer in the search business. Sure, Google.com is a search engine, but the real business at Google is no longer to provide the best search engine. Its mission is no longer “to organize the world’s information and make [...]

Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t become any more cynical, along comes Payperpost.com, a site that pays “professional bloggers” to pimp products and services. Here’s the deal: if you have a blog, you can pick from a list of products and services to write about, and each one has a bounty that you [...]