jimbeetle - 4:46 pm on Aug 31, 2012 (gmt 0)

G used to use PageRank to determine which site had the "original" content (date of discovery be damned), and from what I see I still believe this is a large part of it. G is supposed to be looking at some other signals to determine ownership, besides author not certain what they all are but probably include DoD and maybe some social signals.