The search revolution is coming says Robert Scoble, and Mahalo is going to lead it?
No we did not get punked. Ashton Kutcher does not pop out in the background. Robert genuinely believes Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook will be how we search in the future replacing Google and crawler based search engines as our primary search tool. Yeah the search industry will evolve, the Internet’s not boring or dead but so what if Robert has an opinion on where search is going?
Well in his video series Scoble uses the SEO industry to persuade his audience that Google is broken fundamentally and Mahalo is better. Scoble makes at least 10 mistakes he later owns up to, but actions speak louder than words. Robert Scoble is just another blogger that thinks SEO = spam.
Danny outlines why Scoble is misinformed and later tells him to fuck off. Somehow I always thought Calcanis would be the first to hear those words coming out of Danny’s mouth.
I read too many feeds as it is, and to hear one more blogger piss on the search industry that works hand in hand with Google, Yahoo, and MSN would be a mistake. I don’t have 600 feeds in my Google Reader account anymore, I just unsubscribed from one, two feeds.
For any startups out there that have user generated content, don’t be fooled into thinking SEO is spam. Companies like Topix.com credit a lot of their growth to SEO, and so have others.
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I think search engines are here to stay. They are simple to use and provide results for the surfer, which is most important.
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