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 --* 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* thousands of publishers whose work is being scraped, aggregated and outranked without as much as a backlink* millions of web searchers that are hitting these pages instead of the real sources of the content they were searching forAnd calling out companies that harm the fabric of the web for everyone else is worth doing.