Lets say I have a new blog and so the Googlebot visits my site only once a week. 1)I publish a new post which does not get indexed immediately. 2)Someone copies my content and puts it onto their blog which gets indexed daily. The post which this person copied from my site gets indexed by Googlebot. 3)A week passes and Googlebot visits my site and notices my post. The point – Google indexed the copied content before it indexed the original content. In this situation will Google think that my post on my blog is duplicate content? And will the person who copied my content but got indexed first get credit for the content?
Nobody really knows and Google claim they are getting very good at accrediting the original author (what ever that means..) But don't worry about it. The whole dupe content thing is vastly overated and and any "penalties" incurred (IF any) are so tiny that they are easliy overcome with plain sensible SEO techniques.
No I don't think Google think that your post is duplicate because Google will see that you have uploaded the content before them so it will give priority to your content.
I think the site that Google indexes first is considered original content. Also I am not sure if one is able to determine by himself as to when and how frequently the Google bot should index a particular site.
Hello !nd!an, On first read your response answered my question. But now I am wondering how Google knows who uploaded the content to a server first. If I was a bad guy and duplicated other peoples content then I would have my own server and manually adjust the server date so that the upload would be timestamped to a date prior to the stolen content. Other then trusting the server and what date it cliams a file was uploaded, is there some other way for Google to determine what actual date something was uploaded?