DISQUS

Chris Brogan: The Sound of Content Ripping Free From Its Page

  • Chris · 1 year ago
    This type of content delivery already seems to exist for some searches. For example, do a search on "when was beethoven born?" on Google and you'll find the answer without ever leaving the search results.
  • Hadassah · 1 year ago
    Pretty much any time you are looking for a simple answer to a simple question you can get it on the first page of Google results. I use this as a way to get info all the time, and there must be a lot of other people out there doing the same thing.
  • Cathy Stucker · 1 year ago
    Many people forget that there was a web before there were search engines. The SEs developed to help users navigate the web and, as the web changes, the way users find things will change.

    Personalized search, human-powered search and ideas not yet conceived will replace search as we know it today.

    Nothing stands still, certainly not in cyberspace. Adapt or die.
  • chrisbrogan · 1 year ago
    So if Cathy's right, we need a new "Jerry's List."
  • paul merrill · 1 year ago
    Your new blog looks great!!

    Keep up the good work, Chris.
  • Laurie McGinley · 1 year ago
    Chris,

    Thank you for your concise and moving pitch for integrating microformats. I am very interested to see how this changes searches.
  • beckymccray · 1 year ago
    Direct example, for my retail store, I'm happy if folks find my address, no matter how they do it. They don't have to visit my page to get it.
  • Aaron Strout · 1 year ago
    Chris - thanks for the mention! I guess it really is worth it to call you at 6:00 PM on a Friday when you advertise "call me now!" on Twitter.

    Seriously though, I know this is a scary thought for many companies i.e. the dis-intermediation of content from corporate websites. As you point out in your post, however, if this is done right (and correctly branded) companies could benefit from much greater distribution IF they create good content.

    Keep the good stuff coming!

    Best,
    Aaron (@astrout)
  • Ben Kunz · 1 year ago
    This goes a level deeper than disrupting site traffic and requiring us all to make our content, or brands, portable. It also seriously disrupts the third-party advertisers who buy inventory on most sites not because they care about the site's brand -- but because they count the site's traffic.

    If single web sites begin to pale because users are pulling data from RSS-type Yahoo feeds instead of visiting them, then advertisers on those single sites are going to see diminishing returns, and demand for online ads will falter. Who will want the "long tail" of vast ad networks if traffic is dying?

    Let me explain another way: Yahoo, by limiting click-throughs to other sites, raises its own prominence as a portal. The only way you can thus get a clicks from Yahoo is by paying, so the demand for Yahoo's ad inventory will rise.

    Put it together and this may not be about providing more in-depth results for searchers at Yahoo. It may be Yahoo's way of making its ad slots more attractive than those lousy competitors it has to pass traffic along to. Why give customers, and the advertisers chasing them, away when you can try to keep them all to yourself?

    The irony is deep: A search engine stops searchers from searching further, and thus increases its value to advertisers searching for searchers.
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