Comments on: Jason Calacanis Was Right http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/02/jason-calacanis-was-right/ Merging of Traditional Media, SEM and Social Marketing Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Wilson http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/02/jason-calacanis-was-right/comment-page-1/#comment-33196 David Wilson Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:01:07 +0000 http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/02/jason-calacanis-was-right/#comment-33196 I don't think that every vertical is full of spam,. but the Google pages for anything financial (loans, credit, insurance) or travel related (hotels, etc) I think are overrun with very thin affiliate or MAFA sites. Yes Calacanis has a vested interested in his "partner" Google continuing to be filled with Spam as it will possible drive users to his site. David I don’t think that every vertical is full of spam,. but the Google pages for anything financial (loans, credit, insurance) or travel related (hotels, etc) I think are overrun with very thin affiliate or MAFA sites.

Yes Calacanis has a vested interested in his “partner” Google continuing to be filled with Spam as it will possible drive users to his site.

David

]]> By: Jason http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/02/jason-calacanis-was-right/comment-page-1/#comment-33188 Jason Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:34:00 +0000 http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/02/jason-calacanis-was-right/#comment-33188 David - this is an interesting post, but there is one thing I struggle with, with respect to Calcanis - are search results pages really 'clogged' with spam sites? Is there spam on search results pages? Absolutely. But isn't it a severe overstatement to claim that spam is clogging search results? If that was really the case, wouldn't the search engines be in a lot worse shape than they are if that were true? How much of this is spam, and how much is Calcanis trying to pump up his search engine? David – this is an interesting post, but there is one thing I struggle with, with respect to Calcanis – are search results pages really ‘clogged’ with spam sites?

Is there spam on search results pages? Absolutely. But isn’t it a severe overstatement to claim that spam is clogging search results? If that was really the case, wouldn’t the search engines be in a lot worse shape than they are if that were true?

How much of this is spam, and how much is Calcanis trying to pump up his search engine?

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