diberry - 2:58 pm on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0)

It looks like Google's people understand what's going on, but the algo doesn't, and Google isn't making the connection.

People around here who know more than I do say that Bing is able to just not let scrapers into the index to start with, and Google should be capable of this as well, but instead chooses to let them in and offer us the DCMA option so we can do their jobs for them. I get the distinct feeling Google perceives scrapers as benefiting Google in some way, despite all their angst about spammers.