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These days I see more clone results than actual SO results for some queries. It’s been a thing for years See e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103545

• Volker_W 5y ago
  All of the clone sites you linked are dead links now.
  • alkonaut 5y ago
    Yes that was a five year old HN post so it was the crop of SO clones from 5 years ago. They constantly change. Example from now: https://coderedirect.com/questions/190779/changing-the-color-of-the-title-bar-in-winform https://coderedirect.com/questions/190779/changing-the-color... They even have the same url fornat and everything. Actual result https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11862315/changing-the-color-of-the-title-bar-in-winform https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11862315/changing-the-co... Here I took a random SO post and searched for a sentence in an answer. This result is in the top 5 results (in this case the real SO result was above - but not rarely the impostor sites are above)