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Algorithmically, how would you tell the difference between a site and its illegitimate clone? It seems like it becomes a problem when it fools enough people th

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• qeorge 15y ago
  Couldn't they just notice both sites are identical, and one has way more authority? Doesn't seem that hard to me, compared to the other tasks they do.
• VMG 15y ago
  jquery.com had the content much earlier than jquery.it - I think it's a safe bet that when there are two sites with nearly identical content, the one that had it earlier should have a higher pagerank
  • tomp 15y ago
    Perhaps a better idea is to notify the user that two sites have nearly identical content, and let the users decide.