taps - 2:20 pm on Oct 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

I can confirm that. We have print and mail versions of each article on our page. No problem till last year. Then Allegra hit us and we took measures to solve the problem.

Due to a problem with our robots.txt these versions came back into the serps causing a site wide ban.

I wonder why Google's algo is not intelligent enough to sort out duplicate content *inside* one page. A print and a mail version is service to the users. They like it. (I've already fixed my robots.txt and hoping to return to the index.)

It's ok if Google does not like dupes that exist on different domains. But within a domain Google's attitude goes much too far.

There is nothing funny about being paranoid and sitting there staring at logs and serps waiting for Google's next move. Next thing they'll do is probably punishing sites for the use of duplicate words or letters.

Google is going too far with that and should fix this. I want to care for my readers first and not for Google's ideas.