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Originally Posted by baddog
* Near-Duplicate Content Filter = If multiple search results contain identical titles and snippets, then only one of the documents is returned.
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And it should be so. Because it is duplicate content.
The problem is in policing page jackers who scrape copyrighted content and/or trademarks and use them on their pages to win the traffic for those terms. It's one thing to use a snippet for a directory listing (regrettably 'fair use' copyright law stretched to the limit almost permits this - with the exception of trademark abuse), but when your brand name is used on a page in a context which suggests it will lead the brand source, but instead cloak/refresh to an entirely different page (usually a sponsor for the jacker), this is violation with material damages.
Any jackers doing this better watch their asses - times are changing and they will quickly find themselves without any sponsors to send their stolen traffic to.
The good news (regarding scrapers/jackers) is that recently I have started successfully shutting sites down by contacting sponsors who benefit from the copyright/trademark violations. Most decent sponsors will close an affiliate account if it is engaged in illegal content activities.
The road for this was partly paved by the FTC going after sponsors whose affiliates violated SPAM laws - sponsors are starting to pay more attention to 'cheating by proxy'. It does not pay to risk their biz by associating with copyright criminals.
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Originally Posted by baddog
* Host Crowding = If multiple results come from the same Web host, then only the first two are returned. So, the question is how do I get around this host crowding filter?
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This is an exaggeration. My experience has been to the contrary.
Specifically, if I do searches on terms for which I have won SE prominence (through original content), ALL of my domain results (SAME web host, SAME class C, SAME IP) come up in the SERPs for a given search.
I don't just get one of my domains showing up in the list. Often the first page is dominated by all my domains listed - and yes that includes G.
-Dino