joeduck - 5:23 am on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

I think they know how bad it's become, but (I'm guessing here) they want to continue to use automated processes and those are really subject to spamification by clever sites.

Now that Adsense is so lucrative I think that in the past year or so *hundreds of thousands* of large and small scraper sites have come online. Some are in normal formats (such as directories that post other's content) and automation is never going to detect them as "spam". In fact it's subjective. Our big site has a combination of original content, database stuff, public domain, etc. Few large sites are 100% original, so it must be very hard for the algo.

That said, they should at least find a better site review process - the current emails we get telling us we should just wait for things to shake out, are painfully unhelpful.