Content mill Demand Studios has changed their name to Demand Media, and are filing an IPO – with Google funding a huge chunk. Who’d have thought – Google backing a content farm! According to the filing, DM says, “We have an extensive relationship with Google and a significant portion of our revenue is derived from [...]
Demand Media Filing an IPO – What Does It Mean for SEO?
August 7th, 2010Yahoo’s Front Page Loses Leader
June 1st, 2010The man responsible for Yahoo’s wildly successful home page has left the building, according to Business Insider and All Things D. Tapan Bhat was hired by Yahoo back in 2005, stealing him from Adobe. Bhat ran ‘Front Doors’ as well as being a leading force behind many of Yahoo’s social media applications. In 2009, he [...]
Yahoo Moves Away from Search, Plunges Into the Content Mill Realm
May 19th, 2010Yet another major move away from search for former competitor Yahoo – the now primarily news portal with Search powered by former rival Microsoft, Yahoo just bought content mill Associated Content for a reported cool hundred million. According to Beacon Equity: The purchase of AC, the freelance-writers Web site that resells content on a wide [...]