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Thank you for posting this. When Google (ie, Matt Cutts) states that they are looking for "scraper" sites, I wonder if they include blogspam "news" publications
by chimeracoder 13y ago
Thank you for posting this. When Google (ie, Matt Cutts) states that they are looking for "scraper" sites, I wonder if they include blogspam "news" publications like this.
For example, when someone searches my name, currently the #2 hit is a Gawker repost of a blog post I wrote. What's worse is that Gawker actually goes out of their way to make it seem like they spoke with me (ie, added additional "content" to my post), when in fact they didn't; all they did was provide a tl;dr[0].
I don't have a problem with news publications that seek to be secondary sources that add value (analysis, more in-depth reporting) to stories that others break, but it kills me to see publications not even bothering to do that.
[0] I can't remember if they even linked back to my post or not; I'd check, but I actually have all Gawker media sites blocked in /etc/hosts and I don't really feel like undoing that.
- sizzle 13y agoYou should reach out to him directly and make a new thread with the results. You have a legitimate claim.
- chimeracoder 13y agoHm, didn't think about that. Do you have an idea of how to get in contact with him? The form link he tweeted doesn't seem to apply 100% to this case[0], but digging around it seems you may be right; there's precedent for this kind of action elsewhere. [0] I took a second at the Gawker "article"; they combined content with my blog post with some quotations from an interview with a (non-Gawker) publication, so it's recycling content from primary + secondary source, not just primary.
- sizzle 13y agoIf it bothers you enough, get the ball rolling with contact forms, then start looking for email addresses via HN and linkedin. No harm in asking for your identity ranking back.