Today in Tech: Did the Kindle Fire sell better than expected?

• Analysts like Demand Media. Its writers? Not so much

  The company turned in solid quarterly results that analysts cheered. But the site's writers are telling a very different story.

  FORTUNE -- Demand Media's much-watched transformation continues. Analysts have been encouraged by the Santa Monica, California-based company's recent results. Its freelancers paint a very different picture, though.

  Started in 2006, Demand (DMD) was a front-runner in the wave of companies that rushed to find ways of creating Web content on a massive MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 11, 2011 1:24 PM ET
  Posted in: Demand Media, eHow, Richard Rosenblatt

• Today in Tech: Hackers planning third Sony attack?

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  The attacks on Sony's various web servers may not be over. A group of hackers claims it's planning to hit Sony's Web site this weekend and publish a good chunk of the information they steal: possibly customer names, addresses, and credit card numbers. Should that come to pass, MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 6, 2011 6:30 AM ET
  Posted in: BlackBerry, Caroline McCarthy, Demand Media, Google, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, PlayStation Network, Sony

• Who got knocked in Google's algorithm update?

  Surprisingly, content farm Demand Media sites like eHow stand to benefit from the changes.

  Last week Google (GOOG) changed its algorithm in an attempt to rid itself of spammy search results.  According to Google's post on the matter almost 12% of all searches would be affected by the change.

  So how did Demand Media(DMD) sites like eHow fare?  According to results from Sistrix, eHow didn't get hit at all.  Furthermore, many of MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Feb 27, 2011 2:42 PM ET
  Posted in: Content farm, Demand Media, eHow, Google, Mahalo.com, Search engine results page

• The AOL Way: Broken, battered and hopeless

  A leaked presentation on its "master plan" and its abysmal earnings report only confirm that AOL needs a new way.

  By Dan Mitchell, contributor

  Ken Auletta's profile in The New Yorker of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong last month was a grim assessment the company's prospects and a scathing indictment of the quality of AOL's content -- much of which, Auletta wrote, is "piffle." The company, he seemed to conclude, is more likely MORE

  Feb 2, 2011 2:36 PM ET
  Posted in: AOL, content farms, Demand Media, Financial, Google, media, Tim Armstrong

• Google changes algorithm to reduce spammy sites

  Matt Cutts, who heads the webspam team at Google (GOOG), today announced a change to Google's search algorithm which aims to improve results and reward sites which contribute original content to the Internet.  Sites that scrape or copy other sites' content will be demoted.

  From the post, it sounds like the change is a small one but, if successful in meeting its objectives, could be followed by more significant changes:

  Seth Weintraub - Jan 28, 2011 1:27 PM ET
  Posted in: AdSense, content farms, Demand Media, Google, Matt Cutts, Search algorithm, User-generated content