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We all have been seeing random stackoverflow derivative sites pop up in search. They are taking the exact questions, description and answer and "bloggerizing" t
by ahmed_ds 5y ago
We all have been seeing random stackoverflow derivative sites pop up in search. They are taking the exact questions, description and answer and "bloggerizing" them.
There are dozens of sites like this. I even came across
YouTube channels with thousands and thousands videos that created slideshows with elevator music that presented SO question and answers one sentence at a time. You can convert SO posts to blogs fairly easily and they rank.
I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it.
- dbmnt 5y ago> I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it. An interesting thought, but it doesn't fit with the description provided by SO of an evolving DDoS attack that originates from different networks in response to mitigations. It's not scraping. It's an attempt to deny service.
- mackrevinack 5y agobut once the SO website doesn't work for someone they would be more likely to visit the scraped version
- bmn__ 5y agoStackexchange contents are freely available with a share-alike licence, ctrl+f "user contributions" in the site footer. The data dumps are linked elsewhere in these discussion threads. They are not scraping. The secondary economic exploitation is expected. The copy sites (attempt to) capture value that the primary is unable to. Despite Google becoming worse overall, I noticed that the copy sites are consistently ranked lower than the original. What is your search engine experience? I have not encountered a robo Youtube video as you have described.