I wrote an article few days ago and an automated blog copied the article the minute I posted it here. 12 hours later, I searched Google for "How to upload files to your virtual private server" and I was surprised to find that the automated blog, is already ranking number one in the results. It was my article and its my blog that should be ranking there !

I'm used to having my articles copied without permission but seeing Google ranking a useless automated blog, instead of ranking my blog. That did heart a lot and I was really upset about it all day.

I complained about the issue on webmaster forums, I left a comment on the automated blog asking the owner to remove my article from his blog, I also contacted/reported all the blogs that have copied my content without permission. Guess what, no results came from all of this and it was a big waste of time.

When all hope was lost and I was ready to let go of the issue and move on. I remembered that Google always has a tiny url on every results saying: Dissatisfied? Help us improve.

So, I went on and sent my complain. I did not expect much and I really did not expect a real human to read it.

Today, I searched again for "How to upload files to your virtual private server" and I was surprised that the automated blog, was removed from the results pages !

This whole issue wasn't really that important but I learned from it something important, Google does care after all!