I think it might be, but I don’t have the hard computer science degree to actually prove it. But I did an experiment on Google, searching for the keyword “gathertogetherin” which I glommed onto as a project name because it’s an almost Google whack. And I found the usual detritus of RSS pull-through-reprint sites “not quite” pilfering my content and lowering my PageRank

These might have changed since I found them:

http://findo…/rea…2ugC-ixQpg..
http://gre…mance/

I know intuitively that this question ties into Baidu and closed-door Google technology plans for the next few months. But I again don’t know quite enough technically to pull it all together. Maybe someone else can though with the right motivation (financial? you could totally make money off neutralizing this sort of shit and giving priority in search listings again to real people instead of active algorithms, which Google is giving into gladly, it seems. There I just wrote half of your core marketing copy for you there. Get cracking!)

http://..07/0…ches/
http://forums….ch-engines-alternative-…-result-on-a-115666.html

Keep me informed of your progress at least if you do make progress on this problem. Google is going to grow irrelevant if they don’t give weighting back to actual people instead of RSS roving robots.