<story><title>Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam</title><url>https://mdubakov.medium.com/google-please-do-something-with-your-ads-and-seo-spam-99a6b039354c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombolo</author><text>I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>They have a fix already and applied it to the Wikipedia clones. They intentionally ignore other content scrapers because they drive ad impressions.</text></item><item><author>pupppet</author><text>What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results.  How is there not an automated fix for this.  Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kdot</author><text>They had a personal block list at one point... but removed it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google, please do something with your ads and SEO-spam</title><url>https://mdubakov.medium.com/google-please-do-something-with-your-ads-and-seo-spam-99a6b039354c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombolo</author><text>I wish google had a feature to permanently ban domains from search results.</text></item><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>They have a fix already and applied it to the Wikipedia clones. They intentionally ignore other content scrapers because they drive ad impressions.</text></item><item><author>pupppet</author><text>What really ticks me off are all these sites clearly scraping content from Stack Overflow that somehow end up near the top of the search results.  How is there not an automated fix for this.  Lemme help you out with this Googlers: If site content A == site content B, pagerank = -1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prolyxis</author><text>There are browser add-ons that can do this (for example, uBlacklist).</text></comment>