I think I just swallowed a fly! It was floating in my coffee I just bought! Anyways on to Google, I went to google to search for "swallowed a fly" too see if anyone else's story on it. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=swallowed+a+fly&spell=1 Look at the results? How many entries do you need for the same thing! Seriously page after page after page of "The woman who swallowed a fly" lol. That is insane that there google listed all those, pretty much they all are dupe.
Maybe you didn't specify the right keywords for the search engine. Just try typing "fly contaminate coffee" and see what comes out.
The duplication penalty which is actually just a filter really only affects normal websites and not web 2.0 style sites, I have seen the exact same content on different sites that completely dominated the entire first page of Google and part of the second page. Mike
This is what I'm thinking! With the advent of web 2.0 sites, pages usually are mostly DUPE with very small content or none at all.. Take for instance Youtube, the content is the video, and the author may just put "lol this is funny, enjoy" in the description. That is not much? There is tons of web 2.0 sites like this now. So I figure Google has lowered its algorithm to contend with such content. Lastly, for this "I swallowed a fly" appears to be a song, and most of those sites are hosting the lyrics. The thing here is that internet at large does not follow any rules of copyright. Who is too say which site has the right to display those lyrics? none! Right? So we end up going to a search result to find a lyrics for a song (example) and find tons of DUPE content. (the lyrics) Which one is better? Which one has the right to display the content? NONE, the only real entity with the right would be the owner of the song, the rest of the results would be dropped and those site would go offline.. Which you would end up with 1 result, of the official site that made the song hosting the lyrics, not 500 different sites. And it really begs the question what is the point of making a site to host content that already exists? Like these sites. It seems pointless to me, unless you think you can do it better, but mostly there is not point. You are just creating DUPE content.