Bottom Slurping for Google Juice from Kate Kaye ClickZ is a fairly
jaw-dropping story of Associated
Content, a site cofounded by Google vice president of advertising sales
Tim Armstrong, that
might very well be generating the type of AdSense-powered crud that pollutes
Google and other search engines as I
just mentioned
earlier today. Armstrong
is also a board member of the company. [Postscript: Also on the board is Yahoo board member Eric Hippeau]
Kate highlights how the site employs freelance writers to create content that
is used by other sites. Nothing wrong with writing! Well, she then points to
some less than stellar examples of the content in action, content where the main
purpose seems to be having fodder for AdSense ads rather than actually helping
readers. [Postscript: This content, she's updated, did NOT come from Associated].
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