Google Declares War - and I'm Psyched!
Last Update: February 25, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I made this blog post about how I try to beat back the unrelenting efforts of online content plagarists... well maybe, just maybe Google has finally heard my plea, or more likely thousands of pleas from ripped off writers.

Google Declares War today on content farms. I can't say for sure whether this means it will be effective in stamping out plagarism online, but it makes me certainly feel better to know that at least they are going to try.

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freddo Premium
I think it is too early to say what the effect will be, but Google are also punishing the good with the bad. I think most of us write for ezine articles, squidoo, hub pages and other sites that provide good content. However it looks like these sites are being punished along with the many bad ones.
DABK Premium
Wandah, some content farms plagiarize, not all, possibly not many. But I've had articles taken, spun into such meaninglessness: This is part of one of my articles (written for a client). Yesterday, someone asked me, What are whatever beatific questions to communicate to opt the prizewinning mortgage. I intellection it was a enthusiastic question. Here are the questions I would communicate if I were hunting for a mortgage.

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2. What’s the APR on this loan?

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People like the ones who mistreated my fine article so badly should go.
jatdebeaune Premium
I think integrity is essential in good business. These content farms are awful. Even if someone isn't the greatest writer in the world, I think your own personality and words should be used to build your business. Good for Google...this time.
phildeeze Premium
This is great news! It may take them quite a bit of time to implement and perfect a process but at least they are acknowledging the problem.
wandah Premium
according to wikipedia Content farms are criticized for providing relatively low quality content[3] as they maximize profit by producing just "good enough" rather than best possible quality articles.[4] Authors are aware that the quality is not that good.[5] Search engines see content farms as a problem, as they tend to bring the user to the less relevant and lower quality results of the search.[6] Because of the attempt to deliver as much as possible and as cheaply as possible, content farms are called "McDonalds online". So my understanding of this is content farms do not have to much to do with plagarism.
I have 0 tolerance for plagaism
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