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> Bankrate's woes underscore the difficulty of building a meaningful business on the Internet—which is increasingly dominated by a handful of behemoths. Just five internet companies, Amazon, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook and Liberty Interactive control 70% of the Internet industry's revenue.

This is pretty shocking! Anyone know what "Liberty Interactive" does?

> Demand Media, a provider of online content, has seen its shares crater 96% since 2011 as Google made changes to its proprietary search engine formula making it more difficult to find articles written by Demand Media.

I am really really happy about this. Because all they do is SEO spam garbage.