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December 22, 2005

What's A Scraper Site

It's easy to assume that everyone knows what a scraper site is. Everyone doesn't -- or at least, they know what a scraper site is, they just don't know what they are commonly called. Scraper Sites and SE Ambiguity: What is Your Site’s Reading Level? from Stuntdubl gives you a nice rundown on how scrapers grab search results to make "content" that's typically host to Google AdSense ads -- and asks the same question on the minds of many, why does Google fund this junk?

Posted by Danny Sullivan at December 22, 2005 10:04 AM