Is this duplicate content

[mlalex]

Hi

I am developing a new content site. I have few pages of original content ( I wrote it w/o internet help).

But for more pages in this area I need to read documents from the internet and REWRIE the content in my own presentation style.

Is it duplicate content?

Will google punish me for this?

[patoruzu]

If you rewrite it, it won’t be duplicate content for search engines. But, I must say, you won’t add anything new for the reader.

[petra]

Unless you simplify it and put it in lay man's terms ;)

[larryhatch]

Somthing you _could_ do:

Select one topic at a time. Search up various articles on that topic, select the best ones.
Read all of them and condense them into a single article that you write yourself, in your own words.
This makes it unique in a way, even though you relied on others' work.
Be sure to credit the sources in a footnote. The better ones deserve at least a small link.

This could be a contribution to the web, simplifying a topic for the benefit of the readers.

Sure it takes time, nothing is for free. -Larry

[mlalex]

Thanks guys for the clarifications