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scottydelta on April 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google AdSense leak?

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

02 on April 30, 2014 [–]

Wikipedia content is licensed for redistribution. That isn't scraping.

chrisBob on April 30, 2014 | | [–]

And as a site that is funded by donations not ad revenue they probably consider this a service.

scottydelta on April 30, 2014 | | [–]

yes, Wikipedia content is licensed for redistribution but the point here was websites outranking the original sources.

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