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		vid on July 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog n... What I notice is that Google routinely returns fairly random sites that simply take Wikipedia's content and game SEO so they show up for "wiki <term>." Those results come and go. Google clearly does a lot of customisation for particular concerns, given how important Wikipedia is, I'm surprised to see these occasional results.

llao on July 17, 2019 | [–]

Also Stackoverflow/Stackexchange clones. With automatic translations. Really really bad translations.

liveoneggs on July 17, 2019 | [–]

this is a throwback to mirroring wikipedia and adding ads, which was an effective business for about a year in 2007-ish

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