Who owns slideshare

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HP announces new remote collaboration subscription offerings Collaboration. The company also has a huge enterprise following, and companies like IBM and others use the platform to curate content from all of their employees and partners on a branded page. SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors.

The acquisition makes a lot of sense from a product point of view. One problem with SlideShare is the antiquated search user experience. It offers only one bare bones search box with no advanced search capabilities. Relevance of search results is often very questionable, frustrating searchers. As search has evolved, SlideShare has not. Cross-posting to LinkedIn is often an effective marketing tool and raises the visibility of an individual's expertise, whether for personal business reasons or as a representative of a library, company, or some other entity.

Quality control for user-uploaded content on both platforms is close to non-existent, because anyone can upload their content with no quality control checks. On SlideShare you can find presentations that originated as classroom exercises and on Scribd people have uploaded their resumes which sometimes require a user be subscribed to view, which seems to defeat the purpose.

Of course, you can also find very valuable, high quality information as well. The acquisition of SlideShare by Scribd raises several questions. Will Scribd continue the integration options with LinkedIn profiles or will it gradually withdraw from them?

Since Scribd is a subscription service, will it initiate a paid "pro" version of SlideShare, much as SmugMug did with Flickr accounts.

If either of these events happen, it will not be immediately. Matt Southern has been the lead news writer at Search Engine Journal since With a degree in communications, Matt SEJ » News.

Scribd will take over operation of Slideshare on September 24th. Category News LinkedIn.