Google to start devaluing sites

[lucia]

By the way: I'm perturbed by this situation because this isn't just a garden variety scraper with a blogspot splog making money selling google ads. This appears to be a "hot new thing" with some venture capital funding and which is selling "premium memberships" to people who use the service.  I really think it's important for these "hot new things" to understand that if their "product" is -- essentially-- pulling together content others created and putting a nice bow on it, they should approach the content creators with a monetary offer.  The pretty bow is nice and everything-- and it may well be that the pretty bow makes customers willing to pay for product. But still....  In this particular case there actually is a principle involved. 

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

lucia,

I clicked the link that you provided and saw your message pop up before I was redirected and I think that was awesome! I especially like how you redirected back to your site. Great work!

Well... someone using a bot was copying my blog. 
http://www.newsblur.com/site/1100897/

(I should mention, I also blogged about the event.)
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2012/newsblur-a-modest-proposal/

[lucia]

Greg Troy (KeepFighting)

The reason it's possible to redirect is that they are copying my whole page. They are copying the human readable content, the html mark up, the links to my javascript resources, links to my cascade style sheets etc.   Because they copy the javascript which humans would not see when reading the page normally, the redirect works at the new destination!

All day, I have marveled at this company. I found this image:

<a href="http://rankexploits.com/musings/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HighlightOfNovPriorities.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://rankexploits.com/musings/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HighlightOfNovPriorities-386x500.jpg" alt="" title="HighlightOfNovPriorities" width="386" height="500" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20462" /></a>

Note I circled something that reads "Fix Frame Buster Buster".   If so, I may have busted their frame-buster-buster.  )

If so, I wrote a frame-buster-buster-buster!  Though, of course they may eventually escalate to a frame-buster-buster-buster- buster.   

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

 lucia,

that is too funny and where did you find that picture at?

[lucia]

Greg/Troy,
I found it here:

http://www.ofbrooklyn.com/2010/11/3/hacker-news-effect-post-mortem/

[SoylentGreen]

Here we see how Google's new scheme can be used in a negative way, as I mentioned earlier.
One company is using Google's DMCA scheme as a way to hurt the sales of another company.

Dragons’ Den Company DMCAs Google To Censor Competitor
http://torrentfreak.com/dragons-den-company-dmcas-google-to-censor-competitor-120812/

It's also interesting that Google applies US law to non-US companies?
While I realize that Google is a US corporation, the Web is world-wide... we will see this point in future litigations?

S.G.