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Re:How My Popular Site was Banned by Google by hbar on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @06:36PM (#3100688)
The same could be said of Google's search engine itself: an autogenerated web site consisting of essentially nothing other than links to other places, many of them paid. But no one can deny that it's a useful site.

I think that is the issue here -- probably the vast majority of such sites are undesirable, but you can't discount them all.

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Re:How My Popular Site was Banned by Google by Terretta on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:44PM (#3101275)
But Google had to spend resources to crawl those other sites, collect the data those sites created, evaluate and order the results excerpting those sites' data based on a user's query, clearly adding value for the user performing a search... Oh, wait.
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