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I'd point out that Glassdoor benefits from a huge breadth of search coverage across all their pages. Something on the order of 80%+ of their traffic I'd imagine comes from search. They have a huge leg up building up a ton of rank over the years (similar to companies like Booking.com). People Google this stuff and land on Glassdoor millions of times everyday, and that's what keeps it going.

One of those cases where distribution trumps product veracity. And to be fair, most people who use Glassdoor probably do still find it valuable (some information is better than no information).

Tangential point, but it's pretty crazy that Google can turn scores of companies to dust within seconds simply via search rank. Some sites that are > 70% search traffic: Genius, Yelp, Wikipedia, TripAdvisor, Quora, Urban Dictionary, Investopedia, Expedia, Glassdoor, IMDb




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