Fake Content: SEO or Tenure Desperation
November 23, 2014
This morning I thought briefly about “Profanity Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal.” The Slashdot item comments about a journal write up filled with nonsense. The paper was accepted by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. I have received requests for papers from similar outfits. I am not interested in getting on a tenure track. The notion of my paying someone to publish my writings does not resonate. I either sell my work or give it away in this blog or one of the others I have available to me.
The question in my mind ping ponged between two different ways to approach this “pay to say” situation.
First, the authors who are involved in academic pursuits: “Are these folks trying to get the prestige that comes from publishing in an academic journal?” My hunch is that the motivation is similar to the force that drives the fake data people.
Second, has the search engine optimization crowd infected otherwise semi-coherent individuals that a link—any link—is worth money?
Indexing systems have a spotty record of identifying weaponized, shaped, or distorted information. The fallback position for many vendors is that by processing large volumes of information, the outliers can be easily tagged and either ignored or disproved.
Sounds good. Does it work? Nope. The idea that open source content is “accurate” may be a false assumption. You can run queries on Bing, iSeek, Google, and Yandex for yourself. Check out information related to the Ebola epidemic or modern fighter aircraft. What’s correct? What’s hoo hah? What’s downright craziness? What’s filtered? Figuring out what to accept as close to the truth is expensive and time consuming. Not part of today’s business model in most organizations I fear.
Stephen E Arnold, November 23, 2014
Comments
3 Responses to “Fake Content: SEO or Tenure Desperation”
-
- Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive
-
Insert desired texts, your logo style, change button names if required and
the internet site i. If the company website doest not rank well with its own keywords, can you think, it
will be helpful to rank your website in search engine.
However, the traditional press release has undergone some changes in order to be properly
found by news search engines.
The Home Run Battle 3D is a derby style game for free download and you will be impressed with the graphics.
Use Facebook Offers to share coupon codes or organize contests for your subscribers.
Free flash games consist of an a water surge of option genres- even so as
you’ll find, the most standard arcade games come those that
mix a “defend this” objective.
My blog facebook.com (Sonia)
Some of the best-selling products that are currently offered by Power and Strength include oral steroids.
Pain medications and diet supplements are also available, and fat burning products
are also for sale for someone who wants to lose wait or increase the definition of the muscles they’ve worked
so hard on building. By combining all of these aspects, you can be sure that your post
cycle therapy will be adequate to improve your testosterone levels and
help you keep most of your gains from your steroid cycle.