Qur1uS - 9:43 pm on Jun 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

I really don't see how google can ever stop these "horrible scraper sites"....simply saying they are useless is not really looking at what they do....for the most part there are "good" scrapers and "bad" scrapers....there are some people that have no idea what they are doing with these scraper tools and put out what ever the default settings are....on the other I've seen a few good examples of what you can build with these sites...what is really bugging me is the blog and ping sites that use rss feeds....try going to blogger and go through 10 sites....you will see at least 2/10 scraper blogs....they are doing this because blog pages are getting amazing rankings....reallllllly fast....(sometimes hours)

I think a great idea for getting these sites would be to get users to rank a site relative their search term...so the user types in green widgets....and then clicks on a SERP....if its a site THEY deam is crap then the grade it accordingly...and this somehow ties into the SERPs algorithm....I am certain this type of system is around the corner....as "awesome" as google engineers think their algorithm is working...it may need a human element....dmoz is way tooooooo slow...