Comments on: Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”

By: Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia | Smackdown!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:38:45 +0000

[...] much less noticeable when you had all of those other pages of fluff in there, but now that you have deleted 78% of that side of Mahalo, these scraped pages are practically impossible to miss. None of the pages I looked at were [...]

By: Andrew@BloggingGuide

Andrew@BloggingGuide — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:57:46 +0000

Yes, I agree with Nikolaos, in situations like this it is best to just admit it, apologize and start living an honest life.

By: Nikolaos Dimopoulos

Nikolaos Dimopoulos — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:51:57 +0000

I am still amazed on how the whole issue is addressed by Google. Mr. Calacanis’s actions and Mahalo’s in subsequence might not have been intentional. However following Mr. Cutts’s ‘warning’ I would have thought that this situation would have been rectified.

The fact remains that mahalo.com “does not add to the user experience” (borrowing Mr. Cutts’s words) due to the fact that it is primarily scrapped content and repackaged with ads, obviously to generate profit.

What is surprising is Mr. Calacanis’s answers. He seems to be going around in circles and not acknowledging the obvious

You have been caught doing something wrong, admit it, apologize and move on.

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