As if most of the content on the web isn't crappy enough, now you can use a web service called Datapresser to automatically generate content for your blogs. I can only imagine the sort of repetitive nonsense that would come out of a program intended to generate text.

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?

[via thenextweb.org]