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Here is some related news that was a very interesting read.

Last week, Google's Matt Cutts put up a blog post talking about a shift in focus to content farms, which he defines as "sites with shallow or low-quality content". Most people that read this assumed he was talking about sites like some of those offered by Demand Media (eHow.com, for example), which launched an IPO this week valuing the company at $1.5 billion.

It's not that people thought Cutts was talking only about Demand Media, but most of the time when an article is written about "content farms", Demand Media is cited, as it has basically become the poster child for the phrase.

Cutts then announced that Google has implemented an algorithm change, but things are still rather murky with regards to whether or not this one embodies a change geared at content farms and/or sites like those from Demand Media. Cutts refers to "one thing" he mentioned in the original post that the new change is geared towards, but does not mention content farms themselves. More on this here.

Peter Kafka at AllThingsD had a conversation with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt who maintains that a. Demand Media is not a "content farm" and b. Matt Cutts was not talking about Demand Media in the post.

Rosenblatt is quoted as saying,

Continued at; http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/20...lking-about-us

FYI, demand media was mentioned in the blog comments in the blog post matt cutts did that i linked us to.