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Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues

Presented by Greg Grothaus of Google.
Greg joined Google in July 2005 as a Search Quality Engineer, where he is responsible for maintaining the quality of the search results in Google’s main search index. Prior to Google, he studied Bioinformatics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He earned both his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.



Are different types of sites treated differently in Google?

Matt Cutts, Google software engineer, answers questions from users.

Paul Anthony from Belfast, Northern Ireland asks:
"Are different sites treated differently? e.g. are blogs treated differently than e-commerce sites? Does Google attempt to figure out the context of a site or are all websites equal?"