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Rumor: Scribd.com running out of money.

6 pointsby lemonysnicketover 16 years ago

2 comments

teejover 16 years ago
I guess it's just a matter of infrastructure cost (big) overshadowing profits (small).<p>That being said, Scribd does a GENIUS SEO trick that I haven't seen anywhere else. Scribd tracks all search terms that lead to a document, and then embed a link in that document's page with the search term as the anchor text. To see this in action, go to a Scribd document (<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/918737/Ruby-on-Rails-Simple-Examples-Strings" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/918737/Ruby-on-Rails-Simple-Exampl...</a>), go to the "Indexing" box in the lower right, and scroll through the list.
pstinnettover 16 years ago
I'm a big fan of Scribd and I've been using it in numerous projects. I really hope they can stay afloat for their own (and my own) sake.