Plagiarism & Google's duplicate content detection question?

[phx-keith]

Don't do anything evil.

I would contact their client via your attorney asking them to take the website down. Ask for attorney's fees and damages as well.

Find out where they are hosted and file a complaint. If your complaint is substantiated they may cancel their hosting and impound their domain.

I'm working on the same but to a lesser degree problem.

It is a wacky world out there.

[sitecreations]

You guys might like this story of how Jupiter Media copied one guy's blog post word for word. It is a case where the COPY clearly stole some of the "steam" of the original.

The Original, Brilliant Post
10 Absolute NOs! for Freelancers Tip on Behance Network

A Blantant Copy (with tiny attribution and monetization) - (jupiter media owns this, original author did not provide permission.)
10 Absolute "Nos!" for Freelancers | creativebits

Another Blatant Copy (with tiny attribution and monetization)
10 Absolute NOs! for Freelancers Tip on Behance Network

Because Jupiter Media is an "upstanding Internet citizen" with apparent Google Trust, the second one above outranks the first. The irony is that Jupiter is in the business of licensing content for $$.

[B0B]

Yea, get the theives.
Does the customer know? Get them too.

Report them to Google and Yahoo.

In a perfect world the SEs will time stamp duplecate content and plagerisn will be punished.
I'm not so sure this is a perfect world.

[craigmn3]

Find out where they are hosted and file a complaint. If your complaint is substantiated they may cancel their hosting and impound their domain.

While contacting an attorney would be a flippin waste of time and resources. Your best bet IS to contact the hoster of the flagrantly offending site. If they are a reputible company like GoDaddy Hostway or any other of the many good hosters they will take down the offending site.
I had some experience with that.

You will never get any satisfaction out of the deal, and you won't see any money. But you can take down the site.

[kevsta]

thanks for all your comments, but in the afterglow of the season of goodwill to all men im just going to play live and let live and let the results speak for themselves.

These are not hyper competiitive markets anyway and theres room on the front page for both. the website owners are also nice people and were clients of mine last year in a different capacity entirely.

i wouldnt want to damage their business in any way, and although i think it is a bit cheeky, it's nothing to do with the owners, and isn't going to work very well for them anyway because their content isnt very well aligned with my titles and structure etc, and is also lacking certain vital elements, through I believe, a lack of understanding of what theyre trying to do.

this is basically a web designer taking their first steps into SEO land, so even without me making any counter-changes my end theyre not going to threaten us for position any time soon.

[jtracking]

Yea, get the theives.
Does the customer know? Get them too.

Report them to Google and Yahoo.

In a perfect world the SEs will time stamp duplecate content and plagerisn will be punished.
I'm not so sure this is a perfect world.

Sadly it's not a perfect world - and strangely enough, the site which is a copy of mine also has hidden spammy text on its home page but is still in yahoo, msn and google...there is a reason these SEs allow for site copying, hidden text and the sort...I don't know what it is though ($$$)

[jtracking]

thanks for all your comments, but in the afterglow of the season of goodwill to all men im just going to play live and let live and let the results speak for themselves.

Great cause like I said, in the end the results DID speak for themselves - they've never surpassed me and their site - although the text is the same - looks right weak so in the end...

[qh4dotcom]

Let these maggots know that you will not tolerate their THEFT! If they don't take the site down immediately:

1. Sign up every email address they have for as much porn as possible.

2. Sign their physical office address up for as many trial magazine subscriptions as you can shake out of a bookstore magazine stand. Make sure and include plenty of porn!

3. Find their home address and have an opposite member their spouses/SO's sex make breathless calls asking for them and then "get nervous" and hang up.

4. Sign them up for a home subscription to... you guessed it.. PORN!

5. File a negative BBB report.

6. Report them to their local Chamber of Commerce

7. Sue them in YOUR jurisdiction. Make them travel!

8. Contact their client and let the client know what has happened and that they will be held liable if the site is not replaced.

9. If their client refuses, pursue steps 5 and 6 with them!

Other fun ways to deal with these types of @$$holes...

> Mail a box of live fire ants anonymously to their office
> Send an anonymous report to Child Protective Services and the local school system, telling them you suspect the person is involved in child pornography and abuses their/neighborhood children
> Use Caller ID spoofing to order twenty large pizzas for their "office party."

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Khaan

The problem if you do all of that is that they can get even by doing the same or some of the same to you

[bijan814]

Your website will not get penilized, its usually the websiite that got index first.

Unless he gets more link than u.

[Peter (IMC)]

3) what would you do, if anything about it?

Contact them and tell them to remove your content. If they don't do it.. Sue them. If they´re in another country and you can't sue them. Ask the search engines to remove the site from their indexes.