europeforvisitors - 6:13 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

If you post articles and press releases, those could look duplicate or "scraped" if googlebot happens to find that same content first elsewhere.

Google is unlikely to ban a site for using press releases or syndicated material. If that happened, every newspaper that runs AP stories or Ann Landers columns would disappear from the index.

On the other hand, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Google to exclude secondhand press releases, AP stories, and Ann Landers columns from the SERPs if it could identify them as duplicate content.