cdixon:

Text laundering: The act of transforming text in order to confuse duplicate text detectors, for example those used by search engines like Google.

Here’s a recent Boing Boing post I picked at random:

If you’ve already made your Christmas gifts to Creative Commons and have a couple of bucks left over? How about buying a gift for the public domain!!  Public.Resource.Org just ordered another 41 titles and spent $560 on some really great FedFlix from the vaults of the National Archive, there is still plenty of great material out there, so we put together an Amazon Wish List. If you see anything you’d like to buy the public domain we’ll take your DVD and upload the video to YouTube, the Internet Archive, and to our own rsync/ftp public domain stock footage library.

Here I laundered it by using Google Translate to go from English to Korean and back to English:

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In Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks, the Doctor goes back in time to Skaro, birthplace of the hysterically OCD solipsists-on-wheels. His task: to commit genocide and destroy the Daleks before they themselves go on to commit multiple genocide.

This was literally the most confusing thing I had seen in my life when I first watched it. (I was seven. When I say ‘literally’ I mean ‘literally’ literally. This was my first experience of anything approaching existential doubt.)

Not the time travel paradox. Time travel paradoxes and the willing suspension of disbelief are like drawing. Everyone can do it when their 6 but the ability fades with age until only, by the age of 20, there are only a few remaining practitioners.

But that the Doctor couldn’t do it. He couldn’t bring himself to kill something so ‘perfect’. (If I remember rightly. I haven’t seen it for 35 years, so I might have got the details wrong.)

This is my problem with SEO juicers and the Swoopos of this world. They’re so evil, it’s beautiful. SEO juicers, in particular, are internet bogeymen par excellence.

Like zombies and vampires, they attack and infect. If you’re a heavy search user, you’ll have noticed that some subjects are now pretty unsearchable - so polluted are the results with linkbait sites full of meaningless scraped zombie-content. And some of the bots in the 140-character world are charming mothers. I followed a bot on Twitter for months in the belief that she (sic) was a clever anti-SEO marketing satire. I even reTweeted her a couple of times.

The big question is: are they predators? Are they helping us refactor and encapsulate or are they bloating our code?