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> spammified versions of the same Seriously. What's up with these websites that are copies of Github/stackoverflow with a different UI? Cash grab for ad pennie
by anonymous9023u 5y ago
> spammified versions of the same
Seriously. What's up with these websites that are copies of Github/stackoverflow with a different UI? Cash grab for ad pennies?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI've wondered this too, sometimes I land on one without ads and its a very high turnover, it's almost like there's a college course out there with the final project: "scrape and clone stackoverflow, grades will be proportional to web traffic you capture"
- sparkling 5y ago> Cash grab for ad pennies? It costs almost nothing to run a crawler and host these mostly static clone pages. So yeah, if there is a $100 profit in this, someone will do it. Keep in mind there are still plenty of countries out there where the average wage is well bellow $1k. For many people, the "ad pennies" are worth it.
- notreallyserio 5y agoI don't understand why Google's engineers haven't figured out a solution to these. Other search engines, like Bing, do a better job. It can't be that they don't see the problem themselves. I have trouble believing they're OK working on such a shoddy product or that they're told to leave it so shoddy (when they could probably work anywhere else). Maybe there is some technical challenge I'm missing.