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Report stolen content to Google

I recently discovered a website that had stolen the content from the website project I am working on. I found the duplicate content culprits using Google, I took this to mean Google had indexed their page and was not indexing mine due to the search engine seeing my content as being the duplicate.

This has been a real problem for me in my current role as Google Webmaster Tools is telling me that Google has indexed 2/116 URLs of the website. This is a big problem concerning SEO’s – I need to find out why Google isn’t indexing the pages and what to do about the stolen content.

After studying the website that copied the content, and the process needed to go through with Google in order to remove their page from the index I decided not to go through Google. It seemed to me that the process is a bit drawn out and involves correspondence with not only Google but the site containing the stolen content.

Here is the process to report stolen content to Google

Basically there is a copyright act for the internet called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This act protects content owners publishing content on the web – providing they publish the content first. You have to write to Google in the US declaring stolen content, then the website that stole your content, and somewhere along the line hopefully the matter is resolved.

I do not have the luxury of time, as of course we all know – time is money! So I decided not to contact Google in the US, as I am in the UK and the offending website is in Nigeria. I instead decided to re-write the pages they have copied. This new content should draw the search engines back to the website and have them index the pages.

Looks like the under-handed criminals have won this battle – but with my much more SEO text and less spelling mistakes in the new content, they will not win the war!

wayne Google domain, duplicate content, Google, index, internet marketing, search engines, seo, URL

7th July 2009 – Google announces Google Chrome OS

When I got into work this morning I was greeted with a flood of tweets (from my twitter account) with the news that Google have announced they will be taking their popular Chrome browser and using the same ethos – build an OS.

At exactly 9.37pm last night The Official Google Blog was updated to announce the news of the Google Chrome Operating System. This shouldn’t have come as such as big surprise as Google already make an OS called Android OS for mobile phones – but it did.

Google is not only making waves in the mobile market – now they are taking on Microsoft. The Operating System is what Microsoft is known for – I take it you’ve heard of Microsoft Windows?

Well this is seriously damaging news for Microsoft as Google Chrome OS will be free as it is Open Source. Who’s going to pay £133.60 for Windows Vista when they can get Google Chrome OS for free?

Judging by the blog post Google published, Google Chrome OS is going to be lightweight, fast and very web focused. The web focus is something Google are known for – imagine all the web apps that they offer instantly working on an OS.

I’m a fan of the Google Chrome browser (although I wish it was out on mac already!) so I am really looking forward to Google Chrome OS.

If you can’t wait to get your hands on Google Chrome OS – you should try Ubuntu which is a Linux OS that is user friendly. Or if you want to go for minimalism and speed try Xubuntu.

Google Chrome OS will be available in 2010.

wayne Google browser, Google