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The bad actors are still liable. You go after them to force them to remove the original content that is being indexed. Yes, it's whack-a-mole, but that will fo
by envy2 7y ago
The bad actors are still liable. You go after them to force them to remove the original content that is being indexed.
Yes, it's whack-a-mole, but that will forever be the nature of the internet or any other tool that facilitates democratized content creation at effectively zero cost.
- writepub 7y agoNo - Google should be liable if it enables repeat offenders to purchase ad-dollars and SEO their way up to the top. At that point, Google isn't an innocent by-stander, but enabler. The article mentions a clear pattern, where the base URL stays the same, and small variations are employed to circumvent any legal actions, because Google refuses to acknowledge the "repeat offender" status of the base URL.