I recently stumbled across a Chinese antiques themed scraper site,
aggregating headlines related obviously to Chinese art and antiques.
For those of you who are not savvy in the lingo of the web, “scraper
sites” are basically spam sites which glean all of their content off of
the web and repost it in its entirety (as their own content). Usually
sites like that are put up for the purpose of selling ads on the site –
in many ways they ruin the web when it comes to search engine by
polluting results with content that doesn’t even belong on their site . I
won’t post the link here as I frown on the practice, having found my
own content scraped a few times already. But I must admit, in this case
it did lead me to so interesting recent articles which are worth
sharing. Unlike them, I had to spend some time finding the original
source of the article in order to provide credit where it is due.
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