10 September 2011

The Greater the Content, the Less Its Value

"Ousted Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz faced a plight all too familiar to many of her peers: Making money off digital content isn't easy and it's getting harder. As Web traffic explodes, Internet companies are struggling to profit off ads shown next to the articles, videos and other content offered to viewers," according to a WSJ.com post. "It's a simple rule of any market. The more information that is created, the more the value is reduced. And despite attempts to woo spending with bigger, bolder and more targeted ads, services that help consumers navigate that content, namely search, remain the big money makers online." Read more.

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