Interesting article by Jeff Atwood from Stack Exchange that is one of the three links on the spam clock page and their attempts to stop getting outranked by scrapers from the small
Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title.
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/6556/does-the-order-of-keywords-matter-in-a-page-titleto an actual Chrome extension to figure out of something was scraped from SO and to redirect it.
One issue is that Google policing of the web is based on a, relatively speaking, miniscule number of spam reports and, obviously, new spam pages can be thrown up faster than they can be reported.
What is Google doing to figure out canonicity not just within a site, but across the web? Google is still so bad at recognizing priority. Across a broad time scale, older wins, but across a narrow time scale, it seems like most recent often wins.
