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> I find a lot of sites in the top results that have simply scraped Stack Overflow and reposted their content verbatim. Since last year I get very often result
by dgellow 5y ago
> I find a lot of sites in the top results that have simply scraped Stack Overflow and reposted their content verbatim.
Since last year I get very often results from websites that scraped GitHub issues and just reposted them, often with no easy-to-find reference to the source. For some reasons they seem to have extremely good SEO.
Edit: commented too quickly, that's already mentioned by 2 other comments...
- 8note 5y agoFor the SEO, the content in the issues is still good. The real question is why GitHub itself isn't higher, and the most obvious answer is that it's owned by Microsoft. User generated content is only prioritized if it's from a Google run community