There are lots of types of spam on the Internet, the most well known is email spam, the other one is comment spam, but a third I've noticed lately is duplication of data spam.
Look at this Google search. At the time of writing there were 668 hits for that exact article. Every page syndicated the exact same text.
Why is this needed? I can understand why you syndicate a news story on television, because sure, the Las Vegas local station want their local guy with his local clothes and local accent to read the cue cards, but on the internet? Why is it needed?
I realize this is not as much a problem as email spam (the lowest of the low people email spam. The only worse people on the net are phishers), but still, ti clogs Google up, and is a stupid waste. If I worked at Google I would merge identical pages together and just have them come up as one search result.
Posted by Gareth at October 18, 2004 11:32 AM | TrackBack