Jason Calacanis Knows He's Spamming Google, He Just Thinks It's No Big Deal
While it's always a bit annoying to see a meme take up article slots on Hacker News regularly, I don't mind this one. I see sites like Mahalo as doing massive disservice to huge numbers of people --<p>* thousands of AdWords advertisers that have paid for their ads to be matched with content sites, not scraper pages with a huge ad to text ratio<p>* thousands of publishers whose work is being scraped, aggregated and outranked without as much as a backlink<p>* millions of web searchers that are hitting these pages instead of the real sources of the content they were searching for<p>And calling out companies that harm the fabric of the web for everyone else is worth doing.