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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
I honestly hope Google gets even more strict in dealing with thin websites. People need to realize that repeatedly presenting the product in a lazy, haphazardly fashion devalues the product in a way similar to that of piracy.
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I think the primary motivation for Google is to keep the index usable to the majority of people by serving the results that best serve people searching Google (in turn making advertising more profitable). However a technical imperative also exists - the index, even by Google's standards, is too big. Reducing the footprint of the web in the Google index is worth millions and millions of dollars in savings for Google as they have to spend less on infrastructure than they would indexing the ever growing problem of web spam.
Reducing web spam is a good thing. The better Google get at it the less we'll all have to deal with the web spam scourge which is devaluing the web as a whole.
It's always going to be a case of cat and mouse. Each time Google plugs a hole it seems someone works out a new way of gaming the system.