Google appears to be getting ready to launch another offensive against website scrapers. Scraper sites are usually operated by spammers. They copy almost all the content of the scraper site from other ...

Facebook announced a second wave of actions against spam. Facebook is targeting promotional posts that link to low quality ad farms that copy content from other sites. The announcement of this action ...

Google is calling for help in identifying a long-running problem: scraper sites in its search results — and particularly scraper sites that are ranking higher than the original page. Matt Cutts, the ...

Web scraping is the name given to the process of extracting structured data from third-party websites. In other words, it's a way to capture specific information from one or more websites without also ...