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Won't stop the outrage post.
The actual outrage should be when a small site posts something and then that content gets stolen and posted verbatim as an answer on stackoverflow. There's even the possibility that the Google crawler will have seen the SO page before discovering the original small site.
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They have a fix already and applied it to the Wikipedia clones. They intentionally ignore other content scrapers because they drive ad impressions.
I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.
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You misunderstand the parent comment. They’re saying there are full sites which just scrape SO content. These are not hosted in StackExchange and therefore are not subject to their reporting system, and generally are filled with ads which provide the money and therefore incentive.
> You misunderstand the parent comment. I don’t think so. The parent seems to talk about StackOverflow answers plagiarizing some small blogs, not StackOverflow itself being scraped. Not an issue I’ve witnessed though.
This happens a lot. For instance, a Google search for “maps vs list comprehensions” shows an ad-based website result featured at the top, despite having re-hashed content from the SO post on the same topic.
Clearly, Google’s SEO favors recently-published articles over quality.
I ran a search “react node.js”, and a digital marketing blog post is highlighted in the “Featured by Google” despite being low-quality. So, it’s just spam at the moment to milk views by content-marketers.
Also, it’s hard to plagarise from small blogs when SO is the more active forum for day-to-day solutions. I don’t see that happening a lot.
Just Google “react node.js” and you’d see a low-quality post farming the top spot (with paid-product CTA links).
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> You misunderstand the parent comment. I don’t think so. The parent seems to talk about StackOverflow answers plagiarizing some small blogs, not StackOverflow itself being scraped. Not an issue I’ve witnessed though.
I see the parent comment clearly stating small blogs lifting content from SO and SEO-optimising it. This happens a lot. For instance, a Google search for “maps vs list comprehensions” shows an ad-based website result featured at the top, despite having re-hashed content from the SO post on the same topic. Clearly, Google’s SEO favors recently-published articles over quality. I ran a search “react node.js”, and a digi…
Are we talking about the same comment?
> when a small site posts something and then that content gets stolen and posted verbatim as an answer on stackoverflow.
This is about SO answers stolen from small blogs, not SO answers stolen and copied to SEO optimized pages. Unless we’re not reading the sentence the same way somehow?
DuckDuckGo
...has the same problem. There have been a few years where DDG/Bing's results were better than Google's for me, but nowadays DDG gives me the same blogspam results as Google used to do. I've mostly given up on general search engines, nowadays I use only site-specific searches. That means I won't find out about new motherboards other than those from MSI and Asus, and I won't know about python tooling unless they're li…
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I see the parent comment clearly stating small blogs lifting content from SO and SEO-optimising it. This happens a lot. For instance, a Google search for “maps vs list comprehensions” shows an ad-based website result featured at the top, despite having re-hashed content from the SO post on the same topic. Clearly, Google’s SEO favors recently-published articles over quality. I ran a search “react node.js”, and a digi…
> I see the parent comment clearly stating small blogs lifting content from SO and SEO-optimising it. Are we talking about the same comment? > when a small site posts something and then that content gets stolen and posted verbatim as an answer on stackoverflow. This is about SO answers stolen from small blogs, not SO answers stolen and copied to SEO optimized pages. Unless we’re not reading the sentence the same way…
Having said that, SO answers getting stolen from small blogs is a rarity as I wrote in my previous reply.