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Google has always had critics but, within the last year, many of them grew more vocal about what they perceived as a decline in quality of Google’s search results. Google responded early this year with a blog post in which it disagreed that search results had grown worse, but also promised “new efforts” to fight spam. Among other types of spam, that post called out scraper sites:

And we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content.

Cutts then announced the algorithm change on his own blog a week later, saying that “slightly over 2% of queries change in some way” after the update. He added that “searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site’s content.”

But the scraper problem didn’t go away. In fact, after the Panda update rolled out in February, many webmasters flooded Google’s help forums with reports that it had gotten worse.

More:
http://searchengineland.com/google-signals-upcoming-algorithm-change-asks-for-help-with-scraper-sites-90820