Google's efforts to thwart Internet copycats known as "scrapers" have backfired
What started out with the best intentions has become Friday's Internet joke du jour after Google was caught using its own scraper to mine content.
It all began when Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, tweeted out the link to a new form for people to fill out if they find their website has been duplicated by a scrapper
If you see a scraper URL outranking the original source of content in Google, please tell us about it: http://t.co/WohXQmI45X
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) February 27, 2014
Dan Barker, a web marketer, then pointed out a prime example. Read more...
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