February 17, 2007 late at night
· Filed under content piracy, google
In Google Search, for a few queries my site is the only one or two links listed. The content-pirate sites sharing the same content don’t get listed or get hidden in ’similar links’. Unlike Google Search, Yahoo! Search listed content-piracy sites side by side with the original site for the same content/page/post matching a search query, some are even as a few links ahead of this site. Maybe that’s why much of the traffic to this small blog is referred by Google Search instead of Yahoo! Search. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 28, 2007 around mid afternoon
· Filed under apache, content piracy, information security, linux
I was eyeballing who is referring traffic to this site, when I noticed www.domain.example.com in there. The rest of the site traffic is from Google Search or direct landing on the main page or feed. I copy+pasted the site name to Firefox. There, I found the full content of a post I wrote earlier this morning. It was filed on that site as if it were the site’s very own! The only thing to attribute the post to this site, the original author, is a ‘original post’ link at the bottom of the full blog post.
Googling found many discussions about this type of content piracy. So, it is not that unusual as I initially thought. Since www.domain.example.com is a publisher using Google Adsense, it violated the Google Adsense policy changes effective recently. I reported as such to Google Adsense via email as instructed on its blog. Read the rest of this entry »
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