Here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.
It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.
* the identical text copied from stack overflow should be easily identifiable
* volunteers put together a list of these sites themselves
it should be obvious to Google apoligists that Google is either negligent or intentionally allowing these sites in their search. I'm sick of hearing about how "the world is different" and it's an "arms race" between spam sites and google. Bullshit.
Google starts matching content from SO => Spammers start tweaking the text slightly => google implements some expensive similarity score to down rank copy cat sites => spammers use more complex scrambling=> ...
> volunteers put together a list of these sites themselves
These lists only work because they're used by a tiny minority of people. If Google were to do this the spammers would start switching domains more quickly (or find some other workaround).
I'm no Google apologist but I think you're underestimating how hard search ranking is when spammers are actively trying to game the system.
That's what ML is perfect at detecting, which is Google's forte.
Some of these sites have been returned as top results for a while, so are you suggesting that Google just gave up because spammers would be able to evade them with an update?
You underestimate the resources google has at its disposal.
They simply don’t care because there is no real competition to worry,even with this spam you are still likely to use google, so why would profit motivated company bother ?
At the very least they're being deliberately neglectful because they don't feel the bad experience harms their revenue because there's no other substantial competitor so they can abuse their monopoly status.
I guess they may just not care enough about software developers and figure we're mostly using ad blockers so its wasted effort and we'll develop blocklists ourselves. With no monetary value that they can assign to the ill will that it engenders they figure it must not matter so they don't bother. Pissing off a large chunk of the entire IT community via obvious neglect seems like a poor move to me, but then I've never felt that I'm cut out for management.
It feels like economy-wide that decision makers in corporations and governments have just arrived at the conclusion that there's no money / no point in trying to stop scammers (and there might be an actual cost to revenue of doing so). It won't goose their quarterly numbers and might hurt them so its better to allow it.