Thanks Google, I was starting to lose hope. Some non-organic farms being shut down.

# Domain Change SISTRIX (before) SISTRIX (after) # KWs (before) # KWs (after)
1 wisegeek.com -77% 121,58 28,22 74.024 21.940
2 ezinearticles.com -90% 65,08 6,65 184.508 54.277
3 suite101.com -94% 54,04 3,28 178.373 36.904
4 hubpages.com -87% 55,16 7,40 152.998 50.178
5 buzzle.com -85% 43,25 6,55 86.472 24.423
6 associatedcontent.com -93% 38,29 2,57 216.429 53.512
7 freedownloadscenter.com -90% 30,26 3,01 42.486 7.992
8 essortment.com -91% 25,73 2,32 27.501 7.459
9 fixya.com -80% 28,78 5,83 62.034 36.167
10 americantowns.com -91% 24,88 2,18 26.000 9.799
11 lovetoknow.com -83% 25,75 4,28 49.544 17.833
12 articlesbase.com -94% 19,96 1,16 82.274 31.365
13 howtodothings.com -84% 21,20 3,39 33.222 7.601
14 mahalo.com -84% 20,49 3,23 33.875 9.740
15 business.com -93% 17,24 1,13 21.556 4.813
16 doityourself.com -77% 20,89 4,90 23.256 6.870
17 merchantcircle.com -85% 18,43 2,67 93.347 34.681
18 thefind.com -83% 18,95 3,27 74.506 45.495
19 findarticles.com -90% 16,98 1,74 64.810 20.189
20 faqs.org -91% 16,52 1,46 33.648 11.142
21 tradekey.com -89% 16,83 1,79 37.364 16.268
22 answerbag.com -91% 12,93 1,11 67.314 26.054
23 trails.com -87% 12,05 1,62 38.346 8.511
24 examiner.com -79% 10,54 2,19 70.781 31.272
25 allbusiness.com -88% 8,86 1,08 16.457 6.034

When Anne was at her sickest I spent a lot of time on Google trying to get as much medical information as I could. Through that process, I became more and more upset with the results on Google. It appeared that every content farm in the world had honed in on her medical condition and filled the search results with all kinds of crappy pages. After that experience I became very focused on the result sets. The more I focused the less satisfied I was with Google. Bing wasn’t much better and I still favor completeness over a smaller subset like Blekko. Fortunately more and more people started raising the issue and Google responded. I am glad Google raised their bar a little. Google has the power to make or break many companies, hopefully they will use that power wisely. I was a little surprised that Demand media is not seen as one of the content farms. Kudos to Demand for creating enough original content and getting over that hurdle.

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Thanks Google, I was starting to lose hope. Some non-organic farms being shut down.

#DomainChangeSISTRIX (before)SISTRIX (after)# KWs (before)# KWs (after)
1wisegeek.com-77%121,5828,2274.02421.940
2ezinearticles.com-90%65,086,65184.50854.277
3suite101.com-94%54,043,28178.37336.904
4hubpages.com-87%55,167,40152.99850.178
5buzzle.com-85%43,256,5586.47224.423
6associatedcontent.com-93%38,292,57216.42953.512
7freedownloadscenter.com-90%30,263,0142.4867.992
8essortment.com-91%25,732,3227.5017.459
9fixya.com-80%28,785,8362.03436.167
10americantowns.com-91%24,882,1826.0009.799
11lovetoknow.com-83%25,754,2849.54417.833
12articlesbase.com-94%19,961,1682.27431.365
13howtodothings.com-84%21,203,3933.2227.601
14mahalo.com-84%20,493,2333.8759.740
15business.com-93%17,241,1321.5564.813
16doityourself.com-77%20,894,9023.2566.870
17merchantcircle.com-85%18,432,6793.34734.681
18thefind.com-83%18,953,2774.50645.495
19findarticles.com-90%16,981,7464.81020.189
20faqs.org-91%16,521,4633.64811.142
21tradekey.com-89%16,831,7937.36416.268
22answerbag.com-91%12,931,1167.31426.054
23trails.com-87%12,051,6238.3468.511
24examiner.com-79%10,542,1970.78131.272
25allbusiness.com-88%8,861,0816.4576.034

When Anne was at her sickest I spent a lot of time on Google trying to get as much medical information as I could. Through that process, I became more and more upset with the results on Google. It appeared that every content farm in the world had honed in on her medical condition and filled the search results with all kinds of crappy pages. After that experience I became very focused on the result sets. The more I focused the less satisfied I was with Google. Bing wasn't much better and I still favor completeness over a smaller subset like Blekko. Fortunately more and more people started raising the issue and Google responded. I am glad Google raised their bar a little. Google has the power to make or break many companies, hopefully they will use that power wisely. I was a little surprised that Demand media is not seen as one of the content farms. Kudos to Demand for creating enough original content and getting over that hurdle.

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It’s good to be King, and if you can’t be King it’s good to be in the top .01% | Mother Jones

Winners Take All

The superrich have grabbed the bulk of the past three decades’ gains.

Aevrage Household income before taxes.

If you look at intelligence by percentile you are amazed with how much smarter the top .01% are than the top 1%. Which is sad because being in the top 1% is a great thing and people who are that smart shouldn’t have to look and see how dumb they are on an IQ scale next to the others. In Athletics it goes the other way. The difference between being the fastest out of 100 and the fastest out of 10,000 isn’t that big of a difference. In fact the biggest difference is probably between being the fastest out of 3.5 billion and the fastest out of 7 billion people. (Go Usain) I think most people picture financial success to be similar to the athletic scale. Most people would therefor be wrong. But most people, or 9999 out of a ten thousand are not in the top .01% in IQ.

The truth is the scale is nearly logarithmic and the top .01 percent are so much richer than the top 1%. They make about about 250x more, I would give you a more accurate number but I am not in the top .01% in intelligence and I am too lazy to get the calculator out. I love the capitalist system, I love the idea of a meritocracy, however, I think things have become a little crazy.

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It’s good to be King, and if you can’t be King it’s good to be in the top .01% | Mother Jones

Winners Take All

The superrich have grabbed the bulk of the past three decades' gains.

Aevrage Household income before taxes.

If you look at intelligence by percentile you are amazed with how much smarter the top .01% are than the top 1%. Which is sad because being in the top 1% is a great thing and people who are that smart shouldn't have to look and see how dumb they are on an IQ scale next to the others. In Athletics it goes the other way. The difference between being the fastest out of 100 and the fastest out of 10,000 isn't that big of a difference. In fact the biggest difference is probably between being the fastest out of 3.5 billion and the fastest out of 7 billion people. (Go Usain) I think most people picture financial success to be similar to the athletic scale. Most people would therefor be wrong. But most people, or 9999 out of a ten thousand are not in the top .01% in IQ.

The truth is the scale is nearly logarithmic and the top .01 percent are so much richer than the top 1%. They make about about 250x more, I would give you a more accurate number but I am not in the top .01% in intelligence and I am too lazy to get the calculator out. I love the capitalist system, I love the idea of a meritocracy, however, I think things have become a little crazy.

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If you live in LA, your deal of the day has become a virtual Goodwill of the day.

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I am a big fan of www.yipit.com because it allows me to look at all the deals of the day in one fell swoop.  However, today I started to feel like this is getting a little out of control. 90% of them no longer have much relevance to me and I find myself filtering them down to a much more reasonable number.  I also think more targeted sites will continue to pop up and flourish.  I am advising one of those small but exciting company called www.Roozt.com.  What I like about Roozt is they are very focused on a demographic with a specific kind of offering.  They target the younger generation of feel-good-consumers who want use their money to purchase from companies who have a second purpose, or as I like to call them "companies with a heart." They have continued to come up with great deals for things like fair trade chocolate, shoes from Africa, recycled bags, teas from the Amazon, etc.  Although I am no longer young, I still find these sales to be a great way to find and purchase products I hadn't thought of before, (like an Indian tiffin set for my son to take to school) 

Roozt is not the only deal site which targets me. Appsumo.com catches me sometimes with great tech centric deals, familyfinds.com hits me with things for the kids. If only, my japanese grocery store, the farmers market, WholeFoods, Trader Joes, and Costco would join up and create Tom's-saturday-morning deals.com, I would be happy and this proliferation of deal sites will have hit it's ultimate conclusion.

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