richiepear
from richiepear 1294 Days ago#
Worth checking out Aarons replyMy personal opinion on the answer to that question is that Google knows they are using the work of theives to help commoditize information to force the original providers to be more open, increasing the quality of Googles search results and giving Google more ad inventory. And the second piece of this gripe is that on Knol you show that you guys are fairly sophisticated at detecting duplicate content (or, at least the worst kinds of it). Why not scan new sites in the AdSense program to check for potential issues?
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from richiepear 1302 Days ago#
No comment on the KKK stuff as Michelle handled it perfectly. I advocate making the community guidelines extremely transparent . . . and updating them as the community evolves. Sphinn does a pretty good job with this, although they could make them easier to find.
from richiepear 1306 Days ago#
very well-done and informative to boot
from richiepear 1411 Days ago#
(disclosure in that I work for attributor)Your ad server point is dead-on. This is a directional read of GoogleClicks dominance, and probalbly the only measurable one unless you want to go the panel route which has its own holes.Youre right on scraping although based on current customers, full-blown scraping is the minority whereas most re-use is between 40-60% of the original. In theory, this group wil be open to adding links in return for the partial copying - this is what publishers are betting on and why they are signing up as customers.
from richiepear 1413 Days ago#
Poor Microhoo .. ..
from richiepear 1446 Days ago#
Good post. The last point is critical - you wont get links if you dont link in return- link out when it makes sense and follow up with notifications to companies or people who have been mentioned or cited in the article once it has been published


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