Has anybody else noticed the Content Harvest RSS plague? Many of my keyword searches are now returning random crap that has nothing to do with the keyword I searched for. Content Harvest is picking up on keywords that are popular and associating them with junk they want you to read.
Hopefully they’ll be screened out of the blog search engines soon and identified as the spammers that they are.
P.S. Hi guys, if you’re reading this, I really love Content Harvest. Really. Just kidding. Don’t attack my site.
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January 31st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
There is a debate about Digg showing up in search engines on the backs of articles submitted to it. Many times the Digg submission ranks far ahead of the actual article. I suppose this is good for Digg and for the publisher if someone goes to Digg and clicks on the article’s link. Content Harvesting? I suppose you are referring to sites like PageFlakes or Yourminis that ride on the backs of rss feeds. Personally, I dont care for those sites.
January 31st, 2007 at 8:32 pm
No, for example, go to Technorati and search on “techstars”. you’ll see lots of bogus links where content harvest is taking hot topics and keywording them and delivering unrealted content that they try to monetize.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Okay, I see. Thanks for the enlightenment. I hadn’t heard this term before, but it immediately made me think of sites that harvest content from others for their own benefit.:shock: