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Re:Google AdSense leak? by scottydelta on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @03:45PM (#7669514)
The thing is google asked people to report URLs that were scraping sites and were outranking original sources, so this guy posted a snapshot where google was scraping wikipedia to come up with definition of 'scraper site' and was outranking wikipedia. :P
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Re:Google AdSense leak? by 02 on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @03:21AM (#7672006)
Wikipedia content is licensed for redistribution. That isn't scraping.
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Re:Google AdSense leak? by chrisBob on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @08:39AM (#7672851)
And as a site that is funded by donations not ad revenue they probably consider this a service.
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Re:Google AdSense leak? by scottydelta on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:41PM (#7674465)
yes, Wikipedia content is licensed for redistribution but the point here was websites outranking the original sources.
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