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damn. 50 pages ... insane. i think i got the point by page 5.
all you anti-spam vigilantes should view that thread with an open mind. scraper sites exist - that's the truth and reality of the internet today. the ethics behind them is questionable and i won't even go there.
here are the facts:
-scraper sites are LEGAL (there are no laws against creating crap sites with crap content)
-scraper sites work (otherwise why would there be so many of them?)
-google loves them (how do you think google became a multi-billion dollar company? ok, go ahead and start the flaming)
last time i checked 90%+ of google's revenue comes from one source - text ads.
google has absolutely NO problem whatsoever with people creating scraper sites. the only problem they have with them is actually ranking them in their own algorithm. they have figured out the MASTER PLAN.
Google's Master Plan - (putting spammers to work)
A. Create the sandbox & force new sites to buy adwords in order to rank
B. Let spammers earn a healthy cut of the revenue by creating a publisher program (adsense)
C. Find and destroy scraper sites so Google results stay relevant and people don't call foul (and by destroy i mean ban or move to supplemental results)
D. Destroy the competition by exploiting their weakness - their inability to filter out the spam (this also creates less relevant results in MSN / Y! as scraper sites continue to rank.)
E. Capitalize... (don't ban adsense accounts, and continue to let the spammers dominate MSN/Y! serps)
'Do No Evil'!? - do no evil my ass.
until google starts banning adsense PUBLISHER accounts for creating scraper/spam sites their 'master plan' will continue. a personal friend of mine got called out in a forum and members reported his site(s) to adsense (he has around 6000 scraper sites) - guess what google did .... that's right - they did nothing... and why would they? he's making them a boatload of cash.
now ask yourself these questions....
how many spam sites have i seen without adsense ads on them?
who is really contributing to more spam on the internet? Google or the scraper site creators?
you be the judge.
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