On: Jason Calacanis responds to Aaron from SEO Book

[ivankirigin]

This kind of argument is usually vacuous.

Reputation is worth billions to companies like Google. Google doesn't give a fuck about Mahalo.

[davidw → ivankirigin]

It seems to fit the facts - what is an alternative explanation that fits the facts? That they just don't notice?

[ivankirigin → davidw]

Yes, that they don't notice. People are very quick to say companies make decisions based upon money, but they don't pay attention to the fact that the money is usually far smaller than even the short term loss incurred by not doing the right thing.