This site. http://efreedom.com is winding me up at the moment. It's scraping from stackoverflow and Google has it ahead in the serps for a fair number of search queries I've run.
I wouldn't mind so much, but a) the site isn't as user friendly as stackoverflow and b) obviously isn't updated with answers as fast as stackoverflow is.
Obviously I should just be searching stackoverflow directly, but I'm afraid that habit of going to google first is a difficult one to break.
Looking at the traffic in Alexa, it looks like stackoverflow is doing just fine. The UI is very similar on the two sites, except efreedom is much more slimmed down it seems. Hopefully this site is getting people answers better than if it didn't exist. I checked and stackoverflow does a a cc-wiki data dump in xml so I doubt this site is html scraping, it's probably using the xml data.
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This site. http://efreedom.com is winding me up at the moment. It's scraping from stackoverflow and Google has it ahead in the serps for a fair number of search queries I've run.
I wouldn't mind so much, but a) the site isn't as user friendly as stackoverflow and b) obviously isn't updated with answers as fast as stackoverflow is.
Obviously I should just be searching stackoverflow directly, but I'm afraid that habit of going to google first is a difficult one to break.
Looking at the traffic in Alexa, it looks like stackoverflow is doing just fine. The UI is very similar on the two sites, except efreedom is much more slimmed down it seems. Hopefully this site is getting people answers better than if it didn't exist. I checked and stackoverflow does a a cc-wiki data dump in xml so I doubt this site is html scraping, it's probably using the xml data.
Doesn't Google provide a way to blacklist some domains, and not return results from those sites?
efreedom is annoying and they are not the only site with http://stackoverflow.com/ data. I don't even want to link to the other sites.
If you are using chrome, you might be interested in this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gledhololmniapejef...
There might be such extensions for other browsers, I don't really know of any.