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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.
The scraping technique has been used on various dating websites as well. These sites often combine their scraping activities with facial recognition. Dating app boss sees ‘no problem’ on face-matching without consent Dating.ai App Matches You With Celebrity Look-alikes Facial recognition app matches strangers to online profiles NameTag: Facial recognition app criticized as creepy and invasive Swipe Buster Stalker-friendly app, NameTag, uses facial recognition to look you up online This Smart (but Unsettling) App Lets You Point Your Phone at People to Find Out Who They Are Truly.am Uses Facial Recognition To Help You Verify Your Online Dates 3 Fascinating Search Engines That Search for Faces
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. Machine Learning Helps Small Farmers Identify Plant Pests And Diseases
Made for AdSense sites are considered spamdexing 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 blog network. Prior to Google's update to its search algorithm known as Google Panda, a type of scraper site known as an Spam blog was quite common among black-hat marketers who used a method known as spamdexing.
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Another type of scraper will pull snippets and text from websites that rank high for keywords they have targeted. This way they hope to rank highly in the search engine results pages (SERPs), piggybacking on the original page's page rank. RSS feeds are vulnerable to scrapers.
Other scraper sites consist of advertisements and paragraphs of words randomly selected from a dictionary. Often a visitor will click on a pay-per-click advertisement on such site because it is the only comprehensible text on the page. Operators of these scraper sites gain financially from these clicks. Advertising networks claim to be constantly working to remove these sites from their programs, although these networks benefit directly from the clicks generated at this kind of site. From the advertisers' point of view, the networks don't seem to be making enough effort to stop this problem.
Scrapers tend to be associated with and are sometimes perceived as the same thing, when multiple scrapers link to the same target site. A frequent target victim site might be accused of link-farm participation, due to the artificial pattern of incoming links to a victim website, linked from multiple scraper sites.
Services at some expired domain name registration agents provide both the facility to find these expired domains and to gather the HTML that the domain name used to have on its web site.
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