__/ [wd] on Sunday 23 October 2005 05:55 \__
> I'm seeing old sites that have been around for many years that are on
> the same exact IP address and they are obviously just different domain
> names with nearly the same content except optimized for location.
I usually think of Palm and other large companies when that observation
gets discussed. True, they are optimised for location, but there is plenty
of repetition too.
I pointed out Palm because often I end up landing in a page that does not
serve me with what I have sought. Instead, there can be a single site with
pages that are delivered depending on the country where the visitor re-
sides.
These site regionalised 'mirrors' are very much like porting/forking of an
application rather than extension of the trunk. Imagine yourself Firefox
being sub-divided to "Cool Surfer Edition", "Asian edition", "Censored
Edition" and so forth... need we speak of Windows Vista which will come in
7 editions?!?!?! Windows inheriting that Linux terribly messy 'model' of
distributions?
> Even
> whole industries taken over by monopolistic spam. Are people really
> looking for 25 web sites offering the same product on a choice of 2
> affiliate systems? The small businesses get drowned out. Why doesn't
> Google penalize them?
Hypocrisy?
* http://www.google.co.uk/
* http://www.google.ch/
* http://www.google.cn/
* ...
I should point out that the amount of content, however, is very small and
that nobody needs to be informed of search technology by using a search
engine.
> I'm not even sure if Google can automatically detect
> hidden text very well because I see it everywhere. It is a bit frustrating
> when you are trying to do things legitimately...
Nobody can detect mirrors. I once spoke to a professor about our
'almighty' plagiarism detection system and he admitted it was more of a
scare factor. You can /suspect/ a mirror, but rarely have any certainty.
If you can't tell which the original source is, as in the case with the
WWW, you cannot penalise (safely) either.
Roy
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