Yes, it's an unethical, poisonous, money-grabbing pattern that should be banned but aren't there enough folks on HN that are actually making money off of something like this? Talk about the many scraping, passive-income, etc. threads.
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Used to work until 2009 or so. Even NYT had shopping.com/ Mysimon /Pricegrabber style sections with borrowed content. The idea is that since NYT is trusted everything there ranks high, and it did. Now it does again since the pendulum has gone so far on the "big brands can do no wrong" side. It's all Google induced and Google cannot find the power to penalize big brands, other than a half-assed 2 week or so demotion.
Today, US Today has eHow powered sections for examples and they rank extremely high.
...rank extremely high
For broad terms or real long-tail stuff?