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Here's my question. I have a highly targetted web site (been around for a little over a year). The web site is growing at a nice steady rate. I have a few interactive features, but one thing that caught my eye is a company called ContentHound.com.
The ContentHound site says that their software will search through the net looking for articles, books, news according to the keywords you have set up and give you a listing you can display on any web page. It says it takes a minute or two to compile and presto, you have relevant published content on your site that is updated daily without you having to spend any time doing any research on your own.
They can do the same with links, etc.
I know that there is a fee (I think 1,000 per year or so, but I'm not sure). I haven't contacted anybody on their end to find out the details of their pricing. This does sound like a truly easy way to publish and maintain fresh content on our site.
My question is, has anybody had any experience with ContentHound. Also, what other alternatives are there, less costly alternatives, that are similar...and would allow me to display a long list of articles, news, etc. dynamically.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
At $1,000, sounds like a great deal, however rather than allowing it to publish the content on the website, I'd be much more inclined to use it in a special admin interface so that I could sift through the compiled results (which I'd have set to auto-compile every hour or so) and then through the interface, I would selectively include certain bits of content.
You're still getting a huge benefit by having the content served to you on a silver-platter -- but without the downside of your content being chosen by a machine.
