Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ...
by mprev on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:34AM
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In the U.K. it’s supermarket opening times, especially near holidays.
Google for “Aldi opening times Easter Sunday” and you’ll get articles from the lower quality newspaper websites.
It’s pathetic.
Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ...
by mrtksn on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:54AM
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Oh, definitely. Especially in these pandemic days that was something that I tried and failed. On the Turkish web apparently the news outlets gave up any hope of respect and now every single one of them is doing it. The biggest ones, the leftie ones, the right-wing ones, the cushy with the government ones. All of them.
No way Google isn't aware of this, there's a local Google office in Turkey, they have a large presence and full Turkish language support on most of the products.
Maybe it's simply part of the business model now. If a supermarket wants people to find their opening times, maybe they should buy an ad placement. There's no money in the high-quality organic search results I guess.
Re:To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ...
by gokhan on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:45AM
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I'm watching this exact problem for SEO in Turkey and I can say that it was in full-force way before pandemic. Google doesn't care. Instead, they're busy flagging pages discussing "penisilin (penicillin in Turkish) application for kids" as AdSense Policy Violation since the page contains "penis".
In Turkish whatever, you search the first few pages of results is from the Turkish largest news outlets because the SEO’ed for everything and Google doesn’t care.
Do you want to learn how to renew your driver license? Good luck with that because your search results will bring you a wall of text articles that are almost the same for every search term.
“Lately people started to ask themselves how to renew their driver's license. But do they consider the risks of renewing drivers licenses? Experts agree that renewing the driver's license can be a complicated thing. Now strap on and get ready to learn how to renew your driver's license”
Think to have pages like that on CNN, BBC and others. They are the top result for so many searches.
Plagiarism of news, on the other hand, is more nuanced IMHO. There’s nothing stopping you to say “NBC reports that” anyway. As per the article, you can not use their assets but you can create or even generate articles about the news based on the news.
The ad business is dirty. I’m almost proud of blocking ads.