Jim Kukral - Latest Comments in SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Re: SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Jim Kukral — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:11:16 -0000

@amar,

You have to get over it. Google can do whatever they way. Like it, or don't like it, but yes, the rules do not apply to them. You can call it the same, and at a high level view, it might be, but in the end, they get away with it...

because they can. End of argument.

I would think more people would stop worrying about Google's rules so much, and instead just play along and work with them? Your business would be much more successful.

Re: SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Amar Goel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:07:22 -0000

Jim, You mention above that when did I give the okay for someone to scrape my content and make a buck from it. Isn't that what Google does? They scrape your content and sell links against it?

Re: SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Vishen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:26:45 -0000

Jim, thanks for the comment. The value that we're providing is our ranking of posts in the long tail of the blogosphere. Think TechMeme - but for areas like Knitting, Atheism, Indie Films, Parenting, DIY.

And yes, Google and the general blogosphere do understand the value in this. The apparent value will grow when we release some features to actually help bloggers in these niches understand what posts they write actually strike the right notes with readers. This helps bloggers become better and nailing the right content.

Remember - I am a blogger. I own 9 blogs. And our team built BlinkList.com, which is used by some 200,000 people and linked to on some 75,000 blogs. We're not new in this field.

Re: SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Jim Kukral — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:04:36 -0000

It's not really what I think Vishen. It's what Google thinks. They have to determine if your model provides value or not, and if they don't, they'll most likely shut down your Adsense accounts. But who knows what they'll do, if they do anything.

I've been blogging since 2001, and I'm over being offended by this type of thing. I write about it because I'm on a constant quest to understand this space I work in and I value others opinions.

Maybe I'm wrong and you are providing value. That's for bigger fish to decide.

Re: SocialRank A Site Scraper Or MFA Play, Or Both?

Vishen — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:32:37 -0000

hi Jim. I'm the co-founder of SocialRank. I also a marketing blogger. My 9Rules blog is blog.mindvalleylabs.com

We're not scraping your content. Please take a closer look at the site. We show your post headline and first 3 lines. But everything links to you. Right down to comments.

What we're displaying here is akin to TechMeme or Google Search Results. We're ranking Blog Monetization posts in order of importance for this day. The rankings change daily.

Take a closer look at the site as well as MarketingLens.com and you'll see that these are simply TechMeme style services for marketers.

Yes we carry adsense. Heck so does BlinkList (our previous invention) and our blog. What we offer unique on SocialRank sites is the rankings. It's a snapshot of the most critical posts.

I'll be available to answer any tough questions.