Hi Ant,
I actually encounter this problem a lot more.
This is presumably because more of the topics I search for have a Wikipedia article but not a lot of other sites about them, or other sites with low pagerank on Google.
Since of course there are so many verbatim copies of en.wikipedia, a search on "yonaguni language" on Google will leave you almost exclusively with copies of the same few pages on en:, although it may or may not include two separate pages on Wikitravel (brand new), and some pages from my blog.
Mark
On 07/06/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Funny that you mention it. Yesterday, I was looking for an old pdf version of Donella Meadows work. Had a hard time finding it because all what was on the net about her was copies of the wikipedia articles (mine in good part, so this was not what I was looking for). One of the most proeminent copy was precisely this website.
It was also one of the first time I regretted articles existed in wikipedia... because I could not find the original paper I was looking for, because the web was so much infested by the wikipedia articles...
I suddently regretted Google was not able to distinguish that all the articles were the same, and hidding other articles which are unique, but simply less visible. I actually wonder if this is not a bit problematic. It looks as if the search system was not able to handle this properly any more.
Ant
PS : I must not forget to add the pdf link to the article so I can find it next time.
Maury Markowitz a écrit:
I was doing a little googling this morning while the wiki was down, and came across a reference to a site, www.biography.ms.
The entire site is simply a bad scraping of the wikipedia, with all attributions removed.
Maury
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