3 ms·

I don't think that Google needs to determine the originality of any one piece of content, but rather the tendency for a site to feature content verbatim from ot

by btn 16y ago

I don't think that Google needs to determine the originality of any one piece of content, but rather the tendency for a site to feature content verbatim from other sources. The sites Google seem to be targeting are those who aggregate content wholesale from a number of sources. One way they could identify these would be to examine the number of different sites from which a particular site appears to have copied its content from.

barista 16y ago
Agree. What I think they should target is a set of sites that just copy content load their pages with Google Ads and mint money. Those are the ones people more likely to not want to see rather than sites like wikia. In any case this is a bold step for Google. It shows they still care for the quality of the search and have guts to take big bold decisions to protect it.