Archives of WhenU Sites Copying Content from Major Publishers
WhenU Spams Google, Breaks Google "No Cloaking" Rules
- Ben Edelman
As discussed in Related bad behaviors: Copyright violations and unattributed copying of media publications within WhenU Spams Google, Breaks Google "No Cloaking" Rules, WhenU's cloaking and other web sites included content copied without attributions from major publishers including the New York Times, Financial Times, Marketing News, and c|net news.com. This page provides a screenshot of such a page as it stood through May 13.
The page below is what whenu-advertising-info.com calls "Cool Deals, Hot Sales" (http://www.whenu-advertising-info.com/cool.html). In fact, it is actually "Deal Hunting For Holidays Pushes Sales Into High Gear" by Constance Hays, New York Times, December 2002. (However, this Cool Deals page begins with four paragraphs taken from Tedeschi's January 2003 article, and it removes four paragraphs from the end of Hays's article.) This article is provided without the title, byline, copyright notice, attribution, or statement of license expected on a nearly complete copy of one New York Times article and an extended quote from another.