Here are a few hallmarks of a "scraper site." Bear in mind that it is not the scraping itself--Google and other engines scrape in a literal sense--but the usefulness of the site. If a site actually has utility it is not a "scraper site" in the sense of being parasitic.
Scraper sites usually make little sense unless they are scraping entire pages, but usually they just take snippets to avoid copyright issues and so are giberish if you read more than one sentence.
Sites that use snippets but actually are useful in some way are not scrapers since this requires some editing, juxtaposition...
Scraper sites are not updated.
There are more definitions I'm sure, some more objective than others.
Andi
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