Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites

Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by ricg on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:39AM (#7318374)

Easy. Search for a programming related question. After the result from stackoverflow you'll find dozens of scraper sites.

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Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by ntaso on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:41AM (#7318386)

If you read correctly, the task is to report scraper sites that rank HIGHER than the original site. Not the case in your scenario.

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Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by tobehonest on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:51AM (#7318425)

And in OPs context, not only does it rank higher, it's above ALL links. So you don't even need to visit the target page and in affect stealing traffic (and potential ad revenue) from the source.

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Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by dangrossman on Friday February 28, 2014 @08:24AM (#7318549)

Those sites didn't actually scrape anything. StackExchange publishes their full database dump, and it's CC licensed.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

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Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by corresation on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:52AM (#7318427)

Do we need to differentiate from mechanical scraping versus manual scraping, though? Because realistically a hefty percentage of StackOverflow content are users manually scraping other sites, all in hopes of earning some imaginary internet points.

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