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By: slideshar_dan

slideshar_dan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:52:58 +0000

Scribd has had copyright issues since the beginning and still struggles with it to this day, despite all of their claims.

Cleaning out content is tough, especially if you focus in on traffic numbers a lot at your high level meetings. But I agree with you, in the long run it’s not viable growth.

I wouldn’t put that much emphasis on the homepage in your analysis though. A big chunk of the visitors are from search engines and never see the homepage.

A closer look at scribd’s recent plummet in traffic would be interesting though.

By: Brad Schwarzenbach

Brad Schwarzenbach — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:07:18 +0000

I think it’s unfortunate that Docstoc has become a magnet for this mature and illegal content. Even more unfortunate that they are not getting rid of it.

They have a really solid interface and content delivery channel but, like you said Amelia, companies are going to stay away so long as that junk remains.

By: Andrew Davis

Andrew Davis — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:10:27 +0000

Amelia,
How would you recommend we help Docstoc eradicate the inappropriate material? Short of emailing them and telling them we like the platform and want to use it.
It’s a bit of a catch 22. I think they’d clean out (or separate) the inappropriate content, if more legitimate content started showing up.
Well, only time will tell.
Thanks again for commenting.

By: Amelia Vargo

Amelia Vargo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:09:04 +0000

We use Scribd, but not Docstoc – as you say the fact that they have adult content on there, as well as illegal links makes it unlikely that we’d consider them seriously. They’d have to clear out the crap first.