Re:Why Zoom Doesn’t Have Product/Market Fit
by SheinhardtWigCo on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:30PM
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This article is evidence of the insidious effect of Google Search.
The methodology is silly and would be met with ridicule if presented in an academic or professional context. The author came up with an eyebrow-raising hypothesis that is sure to drive clicks, conducted a Twitter poll, and then twisted the results of the poll to fit the hypothesis.
The web has slowly become a wasteland of junk content written primarily for search crawler software to consume. I don't blame the author of this article or others like it. A fledgling SaaS company has little chance of survival unless they build out a content farm and spew links to it all over the web.
The problem is that the content doesn't need to make sense or have any intellectual value. It just needs to a) attract as many clicks as possible, b) mention as many relevant keywords as possible, and c) not be plagiarized.
Re:Why Zoom Doesn’t Have Product/Market Fit
by foobaw on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:42PM
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everything looks great but the fact that people found Skype to be a possible alternative is questionable. Has anyone used Skype recently for conference calls? My experience was atrocious - everything was so slow, video quality was horrible, and the UX was confusing.
The methodology is silly and would be met with ridicule if presented in an academic or professional context. The author came up with an eyebrow-raising hypothesis that is sure to drive clicks, conducted a Twitter poll, and then twisted the results of the poll to fit the hypothesis.
The web has slowly become a wasteland of junk content written primarily for search crawler software to consume. I don't blame the author of this article or others like it. A fledgling SaaS company has little chance of survival unless they build out a content farm and spew links to it all over the web.
The problem is that the content doesn't need to make sense or have any intellectual value. It just needs to a) attract as many clicks as possible, b) mention as many relevant keywords as possible, and c) not be plagiarized.