A site called "TripFly" has apparently copied FT's forums wholesale, encrypting the names of all posters and doing utterly bizarre synonym-based substitutions of words in content to thinly disguise it. Sample:
jpatokal Feb 23, 07, 10:15 pm
On a Monday morning not too far away, I'll be arriving on an international flight from BKK to FUK at 8:00 AM, with a domestic connection out at 10:15 AM. This will be my first visit to Fukuoka (or anywhere in Kyushu) and, obsessive food slut that I am, I'd like to have a bowl of Hakata tonkotsu ramen for breakfast.
On a Monday morning not too far idle, I'll be oncoming on an global skein of geese from BKK to FUK at 8:00 AM, with a private kinship out at 10:15 AM. This will be my first stop in to Fukuoka (or anywhere in Kyushu) and, perfectionist foodstuffs slattern that I am, I'd equal to have a move of Hakata tonkotsu ramen for hotel.
This perfectionist slattern, for one, is pissed. Can FT/IB whack them with a C&D?
FWIW, here is the domain details and sadly it is Russian......
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FlyerTalk already welcomes such copying by a number of search engines. The only notable aspect of this event is that it may cost them some minimal ad revenue. Your contributions have already been sold.
FlyerTalk already welcomes such copying by a number of search engines. The only notable aspect of this event is that it may cost them some minimal ad revenue. Your contributions have already been sold.
I'm perfectly happy to have my contributions syndicated all over the planet. However, I'm not happy to have them attributed to "bruesnikinae", or to have my prose mangled.
But I presume this problem will resolve itself in time, as in their current form, those posts are just way too mangled to be of more than humorous use...
Yeah, I discovered it several weeks ago. I think that it might be relying on some logic that might seem tenuous to us non-spammers: when people Google for travel terms, they use a lot of proper names. Those proper names don't get translated (and so appear with exactly the same incidence on tripfly as on FT), only the common words surrounding them. However, by the time someone's clicked through to tripfly, all that the evil spammers need is for 0.005% of them to click on an ad to cover their costs -- anything more is gravy.
It's also a way around Google algorithms that denigrate mirrored content, pushing it down the list of search results; Google can't tell that the texts are inherently similar, since such a large percentage of the words have been changed.
I might just toss a few random misspellings into my posts just to foil their babelfish...
Wholesale copying from FlyerTalk... with a twist
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