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Worth checking out Aaron's reply
My 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 Google's 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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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.
(disclosure in that I work for attributor)
Your ad server point is dead-on. This is a directional read of GoogleClick's dominance, and probalbly the only measurable one unless you want to go the panel route which has its own holes.
You're 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.
Good post. The last point is critical - you won't get links if you don't 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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