vitaplease - 7:56 am on Aug 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

I would guess Google would treat duplicate content cautiously.

Unless duplicate content is obviously replicated over several pages on two sites (such as mycompany.de and mycompany.com), Google would suggest to be playing copyright referee if it punished one of the two. Although Google has the right to do what they please they would be then treading a slippery ground.

If a search query would be done within Google for a set of words that exists in the identical content on both pages, but that does not contain words that occur in any internal or external inbound linktexts to these pages, Google could show the page that exists longer in their index first (buy taking the age of links into account and using the unique page content identifier - both ideas from the recent Google programming contest) instead of showing the page with the highest Pagerank first. At least that would probably be fairest.

Discounting the regular penalties, can anyone show me a page which got penalised (grey/white toolbar) for showing the same content on one page as on another non-related site?