["a superb app for iPad and iPhone that lets you quickly and easily transfer photos and videos between iOS devices and computers – has been updated this week, to Version 2.3."]
returned results from content scrapers above the original content.
For me, the original content doesn't even show up in search results, even though it's in Google's index:
The results for that query are horrible, but his complaint about losing traffic certainly isn't due to his ranking on 30-word quoted queries. I'm hoping to get an example of a normal query where he's losing out to scrapers so we can debug what's going on.
The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.
> The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.
In this case the phrase "Google penalizes" = "Google denies access to adwords". The word penalize doesn't always refer to site penalties in the Google search index.
The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.
I agree, I am a bit surprised this is on the frontpage. What is ironic though, is than now when I search for the 30 word phrase, two scraper sites appear with the article scraped from seobook.com. ...nicely backdated by 37 seconds.
Comments
You don't seem to have read the article.
The search:
["a superb app for iPad and iPhone that lets you quickly and easily transfer photos and videos between iOS devices and computers – has been updated this week, to Version 2.3."]
returned results from content scrapers above the original content.
For me, the original content doesn't even show up in search results, even though it's in Google's index:
http://ipadinsight.com/ipad-apps/photo-transfer-app-updateda...
Further, Google wouldn't let the site owner buy AdWords to drive traffic to their site.
Google owns both search and AdWords. This makes the headline here:
accurate, as far as I'm concerned.The results for that query are horrible, but his complaint about losing traffic certainly isn't due to his ranking on 30-word quoted queries. I'm hoping to get an example of a normal query where he's losing out to scrapers so we can debug what's going on.
The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.
> The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.
In this case the phrase "Google penalizes" = "Google denies access to adwords". The word penalize doesn't always refer to site penalties in the Google search index.
The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.
I agree, I am a bit surprised this is on the frontpage. What is ironic though, is than now when I search for the 30 word phrase, two scraper sites appear with the article scraped from seobook.com. ...nicely backdated by 37 seconds.