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11 questions linked to/from Did anyone notice that some sites seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts?
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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efreedom.com-- Another SO ripped-off? [duplicate]
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Did anyone notice that tech.efreedom.com seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts?
It seems that efreedom.com is ripping off the content from SO. The reason I said this ...
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Why these scrapers have higher ranks than the original stackoverflow pages in Google search results? [duplicate]
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Did anyone notice that tech.efreedom.com seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts?
Sites like answerspice.com and efreedom.com are not only stealing our thunder but ...
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Are external sites allowed to copy content from Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
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Did anyone notice that tech.efreedom.com seem to be scraping/republishing SO's posts?
I have already seen these sites that are verbatim copies of Wikipedia's content, but ...
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Report sites that use Stack Exchange content without following attribution rules here [duplicate]
NB The following is a community-generated list of websites that republish Stack Exchange content without attributing it properly. It is no longer being maintained, because the procedure for reporting ...
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Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?
I just found http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, What's the Hi/Lo Algorithm, with all its answers and no ...
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How are the number of views in a question calculated?
I saw it's not just a page views number, because, if I press F5 several times, it won't increase the number of views.
They could store my IP address in a table, but wouldn't that make it slow? They ...
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Stack Overflow questions turning up on answerspice.com?
I am not sure if it is a problem or OK. I found a Stack Overflow question and my answer on answerspice.com.
http://www.answerspice.com/c119/1546863/wcf-in-iis-6-server-cannot-set-status-after-http-...
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Dissecting the Stack Overflow views counter [duplicate]
The last couple of days I've been trying to understand how the Stack Overflow page views counter works. I wish to add a views counter to a project of mine and investigating the options. Stack Overflow ...
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Do not count views of the asker
As stated in the question "Does the number of views on an SO question exclude my own views?" the views of the question asker are included in the view count of a question.
I think it would be a good ...
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How does Stack Overflow implement its view counter?
In comments to this answer, Jeff Atwood remarks:
[O]ur view counts are very very strict
-- more akin to visits as they are unique per IP per 15 minute interval
What else, besides a request from ...
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