Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Wants Your Blood (And Gets it TOO!)

Feb 3, 2010 by

Mark Cuban recently talked about how search engines and content aggregators are vampires.

There is no reason to be indexed in Google. … You haven‚Äôt gotten anything back

But he failed to disclose how his Mahalo investment loots content.

If Google is a vampire (while sending away billions of Dollars of traffic for free) then what does that make Mahalo (which borrows your titles and abstracts as content to pull search traffic into their ad cluttered pages pages, while placing your content below the fold (while using nofollow on attribution links))?

Is the following accurate?

If you think otherwise, then please explain.

Danny Sullivan TORE UP Mark Cuban in a must read article which only Danny could have wrote. It is well worth a read for anyone who wants to understand the hypocrisy behind the Mahalo position on content scraping / vampiring.