jonathanleger - 2:10 am on Mar 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

I can understand not wanting the scraper sites to appear in the results for things like a main company or product name. For a scraper site to appear above the actual company or official product site is rather ridiculous.

I do, however, see a benefit to scraper sites in one particular instance: if there are no sites that are exactly relevant to the query searched for. In that instance if a scraper site shows up that has AdSense on it, very often the ads shown will be very relevant to the query, and so the visitor will get what they are looking for when they click the ad.

I see the scraper site as a two-edged sword--good for getting visitors what they are looking for if there aren't (m)any pages targetting that information, and bad if they are optimized in such a way as to out-rank the official product or company pages.