Micro Persuasion: Teen Content Dominates Google

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Teen Content Dominates Google

Dr. Sam Vaknin has conducted a fascinating study of Google keywords over the past several years. He has made a rather important discovery: content created by teenagers and young adults on Wikipedia or social networks are often touted by the search engine as the most authoritative pages on a given subject.

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