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They used to be superb on detecting duplicated content. They also were extremely good at detecting spam/ham. Nowadays it feels like they don't even care anymore

by slig 5y ago

They used to be superb on detecting duplicated content. They also were extremely good at detecting spam/ham. Nowadays it feels like they don't even care anymore and whatever filters they have are either broken or untrained.

ratww 5y ago
Were they? I remember having to manually block myself a lot of those copycat wikipedia/stackoverflow sites back in 2011 or 2012 when they had the domain-blocklist option available for users. When the feature was removed, it all came back. Maybe the problem is just that there are more of those now.
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  Google removed that option without even trying to spin it as a pro-consumer change. The only problems I can think it brought to Google are clueless users complaining that they can no longer see microsoft.com in their results, and having a negative impact on unethical advertisers.
richardfey 5y ago
Bring back the panda, I say! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
is_true 5y ago
I had lot of problems with "duplicated content" from sites that published the same content as I did and outranked my site.
worik 5y ago
It is an arms race. I wonder how many players on the page generation side? The economics of it must be marginal, I guess
zhte415 5y ago
Copycat sites also used to be extremely careful at not appearing copycat sites. Or not duplicating content on the same site. I am surely not alone in recalling the old mantra of not duplicating content. Copycat sites don't seem to care anymore. I don't believe there are an overwhelming number for Google et al to deal with as it's often the same names topping search results that such filters can remove through semi-manual user action. While leads to the conclusion - Google don't care about duplicate content any more.

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They used to be superb on detecting duplicated content. They also were extremely good at detecting spam/ham. Nowadays it feels like they don't even care anymore

by slig 5y ago

ratww 5y ago
Were they? I remember having to manually block myself a lot of those copycat wikipedia/stackoverflow sites back in 2011 or 2012 when they had the domain-blocklist option available for users. When the feature was removed, it all came back. Maybe the problem is just that there are more of those now.
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  Google removed that option without even trying to spin it as a pro-consumer change. The only problems I can think it brought to Google are clueless users complaining that they can no longer see microsoft.com in their results, and having a negative impact on unethical advertisers.
richardfey 5y ago
Bring back the panda, I say! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
is_true 5y ago
I had lot of problems with "duplicated content" from sites that published the same content as I did and outranked my site.
worik 5y ago
It is an arms race. I wonder how many players on the page generation side? The economics of it must be marginal, I guess
zhte415 5y ago
Copycat sites also used to be extremely careful at not appearing copycat sites. Or not duplicating content on the same site. I am surely not alone in recalling the old mantra of not duplicating content. Copycat sites don't seem to care anymore. I don't believe there are an overwhelming number for Google et al to deal with as it's often the same names topping search results that such filters can remove through semi-manual user action. While leads to the conclusion - Google don't care about duplicate content any more.