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Datapresser is d(ata)epressing
Billed as a one-of-a-kind content creation and network management system, really all I see is one big blog spam engine. While that might be a bit harsh, let's look at what's going on here. Datapresser takes some minimal amount of input, like a few links or a Flickr feed, and automatically generates text around it. From what I can see, it then ensures to cross link to your other properties to try to drive up the page rank of linked pages.
When one of the big selling features is "Datapresser can create content that can fool a human reader", it's not hard to guess that the point isn't so much about fooling human readers as it is about fooling Google. And when the lowest-priced plan includes 500 generated blog posts per day, can this be intended for anything but blog spam?
This product is probably legal, and it probably works. But that certainly doesn't mean that I have to like it, or think it is moral. I'm certain that the use of Datapresser to generate web content lowers the overall value of the web for everyone else, by filling it with mindless, thoughtless crap. What do you think?
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Damage said 2:35PM on 9-29-2008
I thought the 95% of the web was already full of mindless, thoughtless crap...
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LeeH said 3:10PM on 9-29-2008
We may not be doing so well with artificial intelligence but we've clearly made some breakthroughs in the field of artificial stupidity.
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Nick said 8:19PM on 9-29-2008
Are you kidding me? Your review isn't even close to accurate... I use Datapresser to merge TONS of relevant fantasy baseball statistics and it works flawlessly.
Show me another site that allows me to rank top 5 for over 30 terms, earns me over $4500 a month profit, and comes with world class support... You can't.
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Daniel said 1:34AM on 9-30-2008
superwebcamgirls.com might, no terms tho, but you might earn more! Even comes with world class support (tho most won't admit it) :)
Anyway, why not, we already have people online using wordpress and calling themselves web developers because they know a little CSS
Unknown said 9:20AM on 9-30-2008
damn ppl are ugly, i bet this gay own that gay site
micronaut said 4:32AM on 9-30-2008
Indeed, Wordpress is just the same as datapresser and people who use it are just as bad as spammers. Everybody should use notepad. Bring back gopher and 56k dial up modems.
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Unknown said 9:26AM on 9-30-2008
your point being?
WL said 2:05PM on 9-30-2008
I agree, the following quote was taken from the product web site, "Datapresser's built-in databases make it easier than ever to generate your own content with Madlibs!"
I think if a lot of people started to use this they would find their content start to closely resemble other blogs which could actually end up hurting their rankings on Google.
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Gillberk said 5:22AM on 11-04-2008
Datapresser is a one-of-a-kind content creation and network management system that takes the pain out of your day-to-day SEO tasks. Tracking the performance of the many sites in your network can be a huge challenge.With Datapresser, or any madlib script, you can automatically generate thousands of unique articles for any niche you can think of.
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