Stefan - 2:51 am on Sep 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Someone here commented on my post with: "There was another post earlier in the thread, claiming that some millions of pages, although less than 29,000,000, were also original content. What is that, a joke?" No joke (although I said it was reasonably original content). The difference is in how the data is assembled and presented along with some tools for the user which I haven't seen anywhere else. I believe this makes the "reasonably original" content into original content.

That would be me :-)

I'll try to explain it the way I see it: Even though I'm a "webmaster" with a few sites (one of which, the main site, totally rocks and brings in loads of traffic), I'm also a user of the internet. It seems whenever I'm trying to find information that's important to me, I have to wade through many pages that offer nothing, that just get it in the way of the real content. This has been going on for years, of course, and the last while Google is complicit because of the MFA side of things.

So, when I read about 29 million pages going up for a brand new site, I see it as 29 million more pages that will come between me and what I'm trying to find. The original poster's website is not going to be Gutenberg, or anything similar - it's going to be "yellow pages". I do not believe for a moment that it will offer anything original - it's just there to scoop traffic from websites that actually deliver the real goods. The other one mentioned with however many million, same deal. With regard to the post about the 2,000 pages a month: For sure, I can see that it's totally legit. But 29,000,000, or even 6,000,000? No, man. Even if you were Hyundai and putting up a separate page for every nut and bolt in every car, it still wouldn't be that much.