***cross posted on DalianDalian.com
First it was Xianzai.com who was stealing our Dalian content and reprinting it verbatim on their website.
Now it’s ChinaExpat.com. I was a little disappointed to see that, especially since I had written a pretty hefty Dalian piece for them a while back. Maybe they figured that if I did one piece pro-bono, that I wouldn’t mind if they lifted all the stuff I’d written about Dalian? I don’t know… They do link to DalianDalian.com on one of their pages, but I really don’t think that’s gonna cut it on their listings pages. Especially considering that when users search for a Dalian bar or restaurant on Google, ChinaExpat will be right up there in the rankings thanks to the content they lifted (word-for-word) from us.
UPDATE: This is especially mind-boggling considering that ChinaExpat has their content stolen a while back, and made quite a bit over noise over it. I suspect this is a case of the site owners not knowing what hired writers are doing… But Jesus, c’mon people.
Anyway ChinaExpat, you can use my stuff. Just be clear to attribute where it came from.
Also you’ve stole some of DalianXpat’s content too, so be sure to get in contact with them too.
Some examples:
Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/dalian-bavarian-beer-house
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/dalian-bavarian-beer-house.htm
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Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant
Stolen content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/brooklyn-bar-and-restaurant.htm
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Original Page: http://www.daliandalian.com/listings/chu-shin-ya
Stolen Content: http://www.chinaexpat.com/chu-shin-ya.htm
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3 Responses
Meg
October 1st, 2008 at 12:07 am
1Oh! That sucks! How did you happen to find it?
Chris
October 1st, 2008 at 4:16 am
2That’s disconcerting. I wouldn’t mind sharing content if it attributed (a little h/t now and then goes a long way). Maybe we should send a kindly email asking what’s up.
Ryan
October 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am
3Wow, that’s pretty shady. I’m nothing if not confused with the direction ChinaExpat has taken recently. It used to offer some really well-done articles on China, and then it coupled that with a smart blog in what I thought was a winning formula… but now it’s just all over the place and looking to poach content… seems like someone’s asleep at the wheel.
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