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So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before. Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
by plantain 4y ago
So both sites lose? That'll make manipulation easier than ever before.
Or does the older site win? Frequently scraped / already popular sites will love that.
- pupppet 4y agoDerank the newer page, you don't need to derank the entire site.
- nojs 4y agoThis doesn’t work in general because people can copy content faster than google can check who was first. Also sometimes you actually want the derivative.
- carewell 4y agoLet’s start with big offenders. If a website copied tens of thousands of comments from SO it gets penalized. We don’t always need to find a perfect system to improve our experience.
- BugsJustFindMe 4y agoIt kinda sounds like you think that Google doesn't have the resources to have a human decide that stackoverflow isn't itself a spam clone. This is a huge problem for a very small number of sites and a non-existent problem for everything else. The list of authoritative, egregiously-copied sources could easily be maintained by one person. The only difficulty comes from determining when to trigger the system.
- nikanj 4y agoThey have the resources, they don’t have the willingness. Google’s MO is never hiring a human to do a job well, when a computer can do the same job badly.