When I saw this blog post by my buddy, Steve Rubel I just HAD to whip out the ol’ “Dinosaur” cartoon again…
Nat Ives reports in AdAge that a number of major media companies have asked Google to give it favorable positioning over blogs…
Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how many links a page got. But crumbling ad revenue is lending their push more urgency; this is no time to show up on the third page of Google search results. And as publishers renew efforts to sell some content online, moreover, they’re newly upset that Google’s algorithm penalizes paid content.
“You should not have a system,” one content executive said, “where those who are essentially parasites off the true producers of content benefit disproportionately.”
Eh. If it were up to these losers, the internet would not even have been invented. Or if it had, it would’ve been outlawed by now. Besides, I don’t think big media companies are in any position to go around calling other people “parasites”. Too funny…
