Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed?

Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ... by hammock on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:25AM (#2933968)

We used to be loyal to the Economist, WSJ, NYTimes to bring us quality content. Now, we are loyal to google.

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Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ... by aerique on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:43AM (#2933999)

So would search engines specializing on a certain field be the replacement? Search engines tweaking their code to a niche like astronomy, code (DuckDuckGo), fashion, classical music, etc.

Because Google has started to fail as a general search engine. Then again the abovementioned hypothetical search engines would be as much suspect to fail-by-SEO.

Anyway, niche search engines as a replacement to the traditional publishers. Just thinking aloud.

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Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ... by Hyena on Sunday August 28, 2011 @11:12AM (#2934051)

There was talk about this a while back, the need to go back to the curated list idea of the 1990s in order to reduce SEO spam.

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