Posts Tagged ‘duplicate-content’

Workfriendly Goes Offline

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News

Safe-surfing site and “accidental scraper” Workfriendly is now offline after more than two years of pushing duplicate content into Google.



Modified Scraping on the Rise

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Personal Experiences, Prevention

It appears that Google’s push to handle duplicate content may be having an unintended side effect.
Even though a recent report by Attributor indicates that the search engine has done a terrible job separating originals from copies, the spammers don’t seem to be taking any chances.
Spam bloggers are no longer content on scraping entries [...]



Update: Copyscape Drastically Improved

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 18th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Products

Since my previous review of Copyscape Premium, I’ve been communicating with Gideon Greenspan, one of the co-founders of Copyscape, about the issues I experienced with the service. He, and the others who work on Copyscape, have been very interested in my results and in improving their service.
They repeated my tests with roughly the same [...]