Indeed, the head of Google's Web spam team Matt Cutts said last month that Google was looking at ways to prevent "shallow or low-quality content" from doing well in its search results. And the
crackdown can't come fast enough, according to Calacanis, who admits that competing with the output of the top farms has had a negative affect on the quality of legitimate content platform --
including Mahalo.
According to numbers cited by Calacanis, Demand Media now publishes 5,700 pieces of content per day; AOL 1,700 per day; Yahoo's Associated Content 1,500, while Mahalo publishes 1,100 pieces of content per day.