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They've been around for years. A while back a few were sometimes beating SO in google results, but google eventually fixed that. Everything on SO is cc-by-sa li
by plorkyeran 11y ago
They've been around for years. A while back a few were sometimes beating SO in google results, but google eventually fixed that. Everything on SO is cc-by-sa licensed, so as long as the source is attributed (and it is on some of the sites), it's legal. The motivation is simple: the clone spam sites have ads on them. They're not actively trying to attack SO; they're just leeching value.
- rchrd2 11y agoI guess it's a win-win situation. Stack Overflow's ranking goes up, because of all the sites referencing it, and the spammers make money. But as a consequence, the users have to sift through spam results.