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Can you expand on the “stackexchange spam” point?
by mwint 4y ago
Can you expand on the “stackexchange spam” point?
- zamalek 4y agoThere are a bunch of stackexchange "mirrors" that add no value beyond adverts. They somehow rank higher than stackexchanges in popular search engines.
- purkka 4y agoAnd arguably even worse, they often fill the first two pages with duplicates of the first couple results, making the entire search almost pointless if those couple solutions didn't work out for you.
- loonster 4y agoI've seen the same problem with craigslist mirrors. When an item on craigslist gets sold, the seller removes the ad to stop the spam. The old ads stay up on the mirrors and it's not always obvious how old the ad is for.
- lagrange77 4y agoThey often hide the fact that they mirror SO posts. That can be very annoying, like when you're researching a rare coding issue and there are 5 Google hits, and you only find out after clicking on all of them that 4 of them are copies of the first (only genuine) one.