I'm not surprised, and I'm glad Google has cut them off.
Every article I checked on studiobriefing.net appeared to be a direct, word-for-word copy of an article also found on contactmusic.com. This is easy to verify just by cutting and pasting sentences from the articles into Google.
Google is extremely vigilant against such blatant content duplication + ad spam, and for good reason: it muddies search results, dilutes advertising value, and really pisses of the original content provider.
Will any of us miss this parasitic, ad-ridden web site?
Can you verify that studiobriefing.com is copying contactmusic.com's content and not the other way round?
I don't have a vested interest either way, but I would be interested to know what your method is for proving that one site is copying the other instead of vice-versa...
Every article I checked on studiobriefing.net appeared to be a direct, word-for-word copy of an article also found on contactmusic.com. This is easy to verify just by cutting and pasting sentences from the articles into Google.
Google is extremely vigilant against such blatant content duplication + ad spam, and for good reason: it muddies search results, dilutes advertising value, and really pisses of the original content provider.
Will any of us miss this parasitic, ad-ridden web site?