Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by xp84 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:34PM
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I remember those too! There were seemingly thousands of them!
Reminds me of my most black-hat project — a Wikipedia proxy with 2 Adsense ads injected into the page. It made me like $20-25 a month for a year or so but sadly (nah, perfectly fairly) Google got wise to it.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by 20after4 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:00PM
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I'm actually surprised it was only ~$20 a month.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
by xp84 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:26PM
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Honestly, if I'd gotten in earlier I bet it would have made more. I also made zero attempts to SEO it -- there were no links to it anywhere else on the Internet, so it would have been in the very first tranche of useless duplicative spam sites of that type to be cleaned up. It was up from like 2010-2013 or so.
It would have been super trivial to fix but google didn’t.
My pet theory was that google were getting doubleclick revenue from the scrapers so had incentives to let them scrape and to promote them in search results.