It’s easy to assume that everyone knows what a scraper site is. Everyone
doesn’t — or at least, they know what a scraper site is, they just don’t know
what they are commonly called.
Scraper Sites and
SE Ambiguity: What is Your Sites Reading Level? from Stuntdubl gives you a
nice rundown on how scrapers grab search results to make "content" that’s
typically host to Google AdSense ads — and asks the same question on the minds
of many, why does Google fund this junk?
What’s A Scraper Site
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