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Scraper site
A scraper site is a website that copies content from other websites using web scraping. The content is then mirrored with the goal of creating revenue, usually through advertising and sometimes by selling user data.
Scraper sites come in various forms: Some provide little if any material or information and are intended to obtain user information such as e-mail addresses to be targeted for spam e-mail. Price aggregation and shopping sites access multiple listings of a product and allow a user to rapidly compare the prices.
Search engines such as Google could be considered a type of scraper site. Search engines gather content from other websites, save it in their own databases, index it and present the scraped content to the search engines' own users. The majority of content scraped by search engines is copyrighted.
The scraping technique has been used on various dating websites as well. These sites often combine their scraping activities with facial recognition.[excessive citations]
Scraping is also used on general image analysis (recognition) websites, as well as websites specifically made to identify images of crops with pests and diseases.
Some scraper sites are created to make money by using advertising programs. In such case, they are called Made for AdSense sites, or MFA. This derogatory term refers to websites that have no redeeming value except to lure visitors to the website for the sole purpose of clicking on advertisements.
Made for AdSense sites are considered search engine spam that dilute the search results with less-than-satisfactory search results. The scraped content is redundant compared to content shown by the search engine under normal circumstances, had no MFA website been found in the listings.
Some scraper sites link to other sites in order to improve their search engine ranking through a private blog network. Prior to Google's update to its search algorithm known as Panda, a type of scraper site known as an auto blog was quite common among black-hat marketers who used a method known as spamdexing.
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Scraper site
A scraper site is a website that copies content from other websites using web scraping. The content is then mirrored with the goal of creating revenue, usually through advertising and sometimes by selling user data.
Scraper sites come in various forms: Some provide little if any material or information and are intended to obtain user information such as e-mail addresses to be targeted for spam e-mail. Price aggregation and shopping sites access multiple listings of a product and allow a user to rapidly compare the prices.
Search engines such as Google could be considered a type of scraper site. Search engines gather content from other websites, save it in their own databases, index it and present the scraped content to the search engines' own users. The majority of content scraped by search engines is copyrighted.
The scraping technique has been used on various dating websites as well. These sites often combine their scraping activities with facial recognition.[excessive citations]
Scraping is also used on general image analysis (recognition) websites, as well as websites specifically made to identify images of crops with pests and diseases.
Some scraper sites are created to make money by using advertising programs. In such case, they are called Made for AdSense sites, or MFA. This derogatory term refers to websites that have no redeeming value except to lure visitors to the website for the sole purpose of clicking on advertisements.
Made for AdSense sites are considered search engine spam that dilute the search results with less-than-satisfactory search results. The scraped content is redundant compared to content shown by the search engine under normal circumstances, had no MFA website been found in the listings.
Some scraper sites link to other sites in order to improve their search engine ranking through a private blog network. Prior to Google's update to its search algorithm known as Panda, a type of scraper site known as an auto blog was quite common among black-hat marketers who used a method known as spamdexing.