I've seen a new bit of software that takes any private label article and supposedly makes it unique. All it does is add a generic intro paragraph, a generic paragraph halfway through, and a generic end paragraph. Does this really make an article into non-duplicate content? I find it hard to believe that Google can't see through this, but wanted to get some expert opinions. Thanks.
They don't see it as far as I know. It has to be a pure copy of another page if they are going to see it. Even then I have seen both pages getting cached, and not dropped afterwards.
Now you guys got me worried. A blogger on one of my sites posts the same content on several other sites (not owned by me)... so therefore content is duplicated everywhere. Will my site get in trouble for the duplicate content?
you wont get into trouble. But google will ignore (not index) pages with duplicate content sometimes. If google determines that you are the original source of the content than you should be ok.