Mahalo comes to mind (there's some useful content, but there's also a massive amount of things scraped and barely cited or not cited at all). It may be unfair to call eHow a scraper site, but it usually ranks high for the terms and is very light on actual content, and again with the barely cited or not cited. Beyond that, I run into a lot of seemingly one-off sites that are geared toward a specific keyword combination, have no real content, but somehow manage to rank.
It's easy enough to ignore the big, repeat offender sites, but not so much for the one-off sites, and avoidable or not they're still there cluttering my SERPs.
Right, so it's a fairly complicated problem. I don't think you can approach this as a business directly. You first have to just focus on solving the problem, probably for a niche. If you succeed, then you might have a chance of making money off it.
Jason Cohen's advice is probably not aimed at people addressing such fundamental problems. Imagine Page and Brin going around asking people if they'd pay for better search results. People would laugh at them.
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Mahalo comes to mind (there's some useful content, but there's also a massive amount of things scraped and barely cited or not cited at all). It may be unfair to call eHow a scraper site, but it usually ranks high for the terms and is very light on actual content, and again with the barely cited or not cited. Beyond that, I run into a lot of seemingly one-off sites that are geared toward a specific keyword combination, have no real content, but somehow manage to rank.
It's easy enough to ignore the big, repeat offender sites, but not so much for the one-off sites, and avoidable or not they're still there cluttering my SERPs.
Right, so it's a fairly complicated problem. I don't think you can approach this as a business directly. You first have to just focus on solving the problem, probably for a niche. If you succeed, then you might have a chance of making money off it.
Jason Cohen's advice is probably not aimed at people addressing such fundamental problems. Imagine Page and Brin going around asking people if they'd pay for better search results. People would laugh at them.