2017年5月19日 星期五

Content Farm and How to Remove Them



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Have you ever collected material on Google but only found lots of useless information from content farm? Do you think the trashy articles with clickbait title on Facebook really get on your nerves?
If so, the Chrome extension and Personal Blocklist will help you a lot here.

Common titles of content farm articles
















❓What is content farm?
Content farm is a company that employs large numbers of writers to generate a large amount of online articles. To profit from the advertising revenue, the main goal of content farm is to attract readers and make the page views as many as possible. As a result, these freelance writers might use clickbait title such as " 10 things you might not know about Donald Trump" to draw readers' attention, but most of the articles are worthless and with low-quality content. Some writers don't even have the permission from the original authors to quote their works. Though content farm is really a highly profitable industry, it also causes criticisms for producing "just good enough" articles.



However, with Chrome extension and Personal Blocklist, content farm will never be a problem. Take the first Google extension for example, after installing this application, besides blocking the content farms which are set by the system, users can also create their own blocklists. It's will be very helpful when you search information on Google.
(Recommended blocklist: http://ppt.cc/MAvlK)

Open the setting page of chrome, click the extension, and manage your list.














For the content farm appearing on Facebook, though there are no applications like that, Facebook has fought with content farm since 2014, and they will change the algorithm to kill content farm as much as possible soon. Maybe in the near future, content farm will disappear, and we will have cleaner website pages and high-quality articles😇


2 則留言:

  1. Several weeks ago, I didn't have the least idea what content farm was. Not until I saw some comments on FB that claim some posts were "farm posts" did I googled and understood what this word means. I think the reason why content farm is so annoying is not only because they are full of bullshit but also because of it may spread viruses. However, I don't think there will be a day that content farm totally vanishes from the internet, since there're always going to be dumbasses fall for those exaggerated titles.

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  2. Oh......I really hate content farm, but sometimes I just can't help but click into the article since it has a strong click bait(maybe we should cooperate with a article). I would definitely try this way to block content farm and thanks for your sharing that prevent more people suffering from it!

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