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		foobarian on Jan 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Search engines and SEO spam The recipe problem is mostly because actual recipes are not copyrightable. See e.g. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/24/recipes-copyright...

leobg on Jan 3, 2022 [–]

Neither are ideas. Hence article spinning and book summaries.

We need a semantic dupe filter: If it doesn’t add new facts or new ideas, treat it as an identical copy.

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