Plagiarism has maintained a consistently malign presence in not only traditional media but electronic as well. Optimized intellectual freedom while being the one of the driving factors of the Internet’s popularity came attached with an exasperating problem known as web scraping. Till date many Dubai web development professionals, like developers and businesses elsewhere grapple with this problem.

Scraper sites are usually the torchbearers of plagiarism. Cut-copy-paste is the name of the game for them with content lifted directly at times from similar sites. One explanation for scraper sites employing such methods is because it is convenient for them to rank high in search engine results making for convenient SEO.

There is technology available that spews out keywords in multitude and variety. Incorporating them into these sites is child’s play for such abusers of the system. How much ever I would prefer to say otherwise, there are businesses and web marketing firms that hire questionable writers to web scrape for an amount as less $1 for 500 words.

Advertising programs like Google AdSense have further increased the proliferation of scraper sites, so much that a separate term- MFA or Made For AdSense- has been coined to describe them.

A surfer visiting a website can click on an advertisement and by doing so enable the site owner to make a profit from Google as the latter is offering the business a platform to feature the advertisement. MFA sites have exploited this system by existing for the sole purpose of getting people to click on the adverts the sites display.