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Farm content

I imagined it could exist but I under-suspected the scale of it. Read this article by the NY Times (of course) about a company who provides content to everyone on the net, creating literal “farm content” where free-lancers are under-paid to write about everything search engines are spotting as commonly sought or of interest for Internet users. Am I the only one shivering?

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