pageoneresults - 2:48 pm on Dec 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Those cranked out, empty category pages without listings in them, with nothing more than the global navigation, are also mighty close to duplicate content.

Marcia, actually those empty category pages are duplicate content. They are well above the threshold in what is considered to be duplicate. In some instances, the only thing that changes are a few strategically placed variables within a title, description and opening paragraph. I'd say the pages are 95% identical.