One thing that separates Google from other huge tech companies is its ability to adapt based upon mass demands by its users. The demands had been accumulating about low-quality “churn and burn” style content websites dubbed “content farms” when Google responded with a major change to its algorithm last month. The fallout has been calculated by our friends at Focus in the form of this comprehensive infographic split into several different parts. Click any image to see the complete graphic enlarged. What Makes a Content Farm? Farming has been a valid strategy for years utilized as both a revenue…

When the Demand Media witch hunt started a few months ago, journalists and bloggers called for action against what they termed the biggest “content farm.” There is little doubt that eHow is in essence exactly as described: a venue for low-quality, quickly-written and edited articles that rank well in search engines and draw in tremendous traffic to their ad-loaded pages as a result. Google changed their algorithm. eHow remains strong in the search engines. What happened? Not to toot our own horn here, but we said back in December that Demand Media’s business model is gold and we stand by the opinion…