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Re:DuckDuckGo ups content farm banning by promoting wikiHow ... by svlla on Friday February 04, 2011 @07:49PM (#2182032)
that's really the problem. Adsense doesn't factor into it... but it should. negatively. truth is, Google has created a superb "signal" that a website is crummy: Adsense. it would be funny if it wasn't so sad. and they can't do anything about it, since it would hurt the bottom line.
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Re:DuckDuckGo ups content farm banning by promoting wikiHow ... by moultano on Friday February 04, 2011 @11:52PM (#2182482)
In principle we're ok having the presence of adsense hurt a site's ranking. We just aren't ok with it helping.
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