{"id":5104,"date":"2013-04-30T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:55:22","slug":"worries-about-the-web-and-googles-place-in-it-smashing-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Worries about the web and Google&#8217;s place in it; Smashing Small Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleywatcher.com\/mt\/archives\/2013\/04\/worries_about_the_web.php\">Tom Foremski<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google&#8217;s dirty little secret is that its commercial algorithm is broken and it can&#8217;t distinguish between quality  content and spam. Which is why it is backing big brands in a big way because that&#8217;s the easiest way to sort things out.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s too bad for small mom and pop businesses and the backbone of the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Foremski: Google&#8217;s dirty little secret is that its commercial algorithm is broken and it can&#8217;t distinguish between quality content and spam. Which is why it is backing big brands in a big way because that&#8217;s the easiest way to sort things out. That&#8217;s too bad for small mom and pop businesses and the backbone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}