The_Contractor - 11:56 am on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Just so you know: Scrapers actually "scrape" content and then monetize the traffic through AdSense. That's what Googleguy said they went after on July 28th.

Look, you can agree or disagree with what I am saying, doesn't matter to me. GoogleGuy never said anything about going after sites that scrape for AdSense money so let's keep things factual instead of more theories. Here is the thread [webmasterworld.com...] and you will not see the word AdSense in his post at all (msg#4). I have seen many sites/scripts that have FindWhat/Searchfeed fill and they are usually nothing more than an endless supply of search terms in one column and backfill PPC listings in another. If you call that a directory that is fine, but to me it is not (and by definition it is not). I am not saying that is what you have done, but simply your site may include some of the same qualities or scripting that make it appear this way.

Plus why exactly did they nuke the entire domain?

That is what this thread started out to be. What qualities do those nuked sites have in common or what qualities do they have to make them look like scraped, generated, or low quality sites to Google. It seems no-one really wants to figure that out….