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A Scrape of a Scrape |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:07 am |
| Tags: prevention, personal experiences, articles, content theft, copyright infringement, ie7, plagiarism, rss, scraping, spam, spam blogging, spam blogs, splogs |
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I often get asked by reporters and bloggers alike exactly how bad scraping is on the Web. I discuss my past experiments on the topic and how, depending on your keywords, suspicious traffic starts showing up with the first post. However, as I was searching for information on IE7 security flaws for another site I’m working on, I ran across something that was truly mind-blowing. On Google Blogsearch, this result (nofollowed) was one of the first to pop up. One look at it and you can clearly tell that it is a scrape of another post. However, kindly enough, the scraper left information about their source. I followed through on that and was taken to this entry (nofollowed), yet another scraped page. It was only after following the results link there that I was taken to the original post on the IEBlog. It is stunning, though not surprising, to think that scraping is so common that scrapers are picking up each other’s blogs. What makes this situation somewhat unique is that we [ Full article ] |
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