As I noticed elsewhere already, Yahoo had gone crazy. Now it seems it’s a deliberate strategy. It looks like they’ve got offended by Google’s near-monopoly and decided to aid those who are more than happy to exhaust Googlebot and Google spam-filters with millions of pages of duplicate content.
First Yahoo makes their Y360 blog service to compulsory re-publish content in their Geocities blog, and now this!
They just released Yahoo Pipes a service that allows you to mash up any number of feed sources and get them out as a new combined feed they call a pipe. Being a pipe smoker myself I can’t help appreciating their naming convention, despite they actually derive it from Unix pipes, not from smoking ones. I simply stick with my interpretation.
Put it in your pipe, burn it and smoke it!
That’s what is on offer and what makes it the ultimate splogging tool. Get any kind of syndicated content, mix and mash it in pipes and here you go. You only need to have basic wordpress skills and a couple of good plugins to make a perfect splog. So splogging for everyone, splogging for the masses!
I don’t mind, but what is going to happen to the unique content mantra of recent days. With this tool you can dilute anybody’s unique content in three clicks.
It’s not that I am not appreciating the effort. It’s easy and fun working with their fancy Web 2.0 interface and making all those pipes connect in a nice drainage system. I felt like a real plumber at work. You have to try it to enjoy it! I even made my own combined feed and loaded it to a eSEO test site.
Get a nice screenshot of their interface:
tags: yahoo pipes, eseo, unique content
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This is pretty cool and opens the door to LOTS of black hat stuff! Now if Yahoo really wanted to make Google’s live hell they would allow you to generate parsing code with no API usage. So you could just create a mash, drop in code and have the result appear as static HTML. This would open the evil world of black hat to any clown that can use FrontPage, now that would give Google an excedrin moment.
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