Exactly. In the SEO world, the common wisdom is you will get dinged in ranking or even deindexed if you publish duplicate content. Period. There is an entire su

Exactly. In the SEO world, the common wisdom is you will get dinged in ranking or even deindexed if you publish duplicate content. Period. There is an entire sub-industry in SEO that's all about content spinning. I'm always kinda amazed that these sites show up and I usually get them for about 50%+ of my tech searches. What I think ultimately happens is Google is notified and these sites are eventually deindexed. But this still leads me to really question the whole duplicate content theory sometimes. If Google was so tight about this, these sites would never show up in the first place. It could also be that the tech terms searched for are not as competitive as, say, medical or diet or celeb terms. Maybe Google's just grabbing at any kind of relevancy at this point, duplicate or not.