I am lately seeing many people simply copying content and pasting it in their sites. Is this allowed by google? I saw this site http://www.makeushot.com/katherine-heigl-forced-josh-to-propose/ an exact word to word copy of http://www.hollyscoop.com/katherine-heigl/katherine-heigl-forced-josh... The person who runs the site makeushot.com has copied the content from different original magazine sites and pasted in his site. He has added adsense. Shocking fact is Google has given a pagerank of 4 for this content scrapping site. From the statistic for this copied site i see that he is getting 1200 pageviews per day. What is this happening? Should we try hard to write original content or copy paste articles and make money till it lasts. Why is google not able to detect copied content. Also I wonder how much he would make with adsense for 1200 pageviews per day. Please clarify on this. Many webmasters try hard for earning with adsense and they fail many times. But some lazy guys steal and make money so quick.