> Content creation is big business, and there are big players involved. For example, Associated Content, which produces 10,000 new articles per month, was purchased by Yahoo! for $100 million, in 2010. Demand Media has 8,000 writers who produce 180,000 new articles each month. It generated more than $200 million in revenue in 2009 and planning an initial public offering valued at about $1.5 billion. This content is what ends up as the landfill in the garbage websites that you find all over the web. And these are the first links that show up in your Google search results.
via [techcrunch.com](http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/01/why-we-desperately-need-a-new-and-better-google-2/)
I’m glad to see other people start to notice how bad Google search results have gotten. Seriously, with all the SEO crap you have to sift through, we’re actually worse off now than in the old Alta Vista and Yahoo! days. People are gaming the system, and Google is either too busy playing with TV interfaces to care, or more likely, is profiting too much from the manipulation to care. And we’re paying for our naive trust in Google’s “Don’t be Evil” every day.
This is an excellent read. And I agree with the conclusion, that someone needs to swoop in and kick Google to the curb with search.
