cristian - 2:03 pm on Dec 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks everyone for your replies.

I actually took the time and made an ellaborate complain to Yahoos copyright department, and only got a kind reply in response with legal stuff I do not understand; after a couple of follow ups it seems that it is going nowhere. I do not have a lawyer and do not have the money to hire one - my site is only a great hobby for me at the moment. I also flagged the copied content right from Yahoo answers, with no effect at all.

I just feel quite frustrated working all over the last year for Yahoo to take the top positions with my articles.

I also posted this issue on google webmasters group, but no official response so far. I will try the DMCA with Google.

I think this will be a growing issue for all webmasters (I'm sure at the present is affecting many people unknowingly), so I will keep you posted on the outcome. At least in the spanish language, Yahoo answers is dominating the SERPS closing in to Wikipedia, with the difference of having tons of copied content without reference to the original sources( in a lot of cases).

(*** If you check on almost every large, well written and elaborated response on yahoo answers, it is most likely copied from somewhere else and pasted***)

Regards