Yesterday, Shail alerted us to this site which seems to be pulling content from a lot of our blogs. Off the top of my head, Deeps‘, Obssessive Mom, Ani’s Nest, Adventures in Mommyland, Smita’s Books Life N More are listed out there. Please do go check to see if your blogs have turned up there! I think as we post, they pull it out and post it there. And from what I can see, older posts are not listed, so it’s worth it to try posting to check if your blog turns up there. My older post is no longer available there.
Initially when I checked mine, I could see my whole post there. Towards the end of the day, it was only the link to my post. So this is a test post to check what happens. And anybody who reads all this text on any site other than – https://wordsndreamz.wordpress.com, should know that the site has scraped my content.
If any of you know what can be done to counter content scraping of this level, please do let me know! Requests to the site admins seem to come to nothing.
In the random nothings part of the post, I ended up baking yesterday, finally 🙂 A chocolate-orange marble cake, but it is another story that nothing, in the cake baking process went as per schedule. My electronic scales stopped working – maybe the battery needs changing(I haven’t gotten down to doing that yet), I missed out some parts of the recipe, which saw me substituting cocoa for melted chocolate, forgot to add yogurt and added it in the end. And finally instead of grated orange rind, I popped in two tablespoons of marmalade. I was running out of time, so desperate measures had to be resorted to. To add to it all, it was slightly burnt, as I had to leave it in the oven and run to pick up daughter. Daughter loved it despite all that went wrong 🙂 So I take solace in the fact that she loved it – that’s all that matters 🙂 And maybe give it another try – properly 🙂
Again, please do go and check to see if you can find your post on Haaram.com. And if any of you know what can be done to stop them from picking up our posts and reposting them on their site, do let us know.
Edited to add : I just checked Haaram.com. My post is out there, but with no description. I have no idea how that changed, but I am really glad that the whole post is not visible there.
Deeps, Your reblog is visible too, but again with no description, unlike how it was yesterday.
Uma -I can see your post there as well! With no description. I can’t help wonder if they have finally changed settings?
so is that what I have to bake on Sunday??
People cna get so lazy about posting na..that they just rip off the posts from other sites 😦
No no – this was just a cake I felt like baking. Lets all decide together what to bake 🙂
It’s an aggregator site, RM, where so many of our posts are being pulled. Go check it out. I did not see yours there though – lucky you 🙂
Reblogged this on Perceptions and commented:
Alerting against haaram.com.
She loved the cake, no..thats what matters! I’m glad that you’re back to baking! Here looking forward to drooling at more of your baking delights 🙂
Hugs!
🙂 I know 🙂 I did not quite fancy having to eat that whole cake by myself 🙂 Hoping that i do continue to bake 🙂
so u r back with baking.. nice.. :). so next time, post the pics too.. :).
I did not take any pics this time 😦 Next time for sure.
Smits, its only my reblog that says ‘no description’. But my previous posts are still opening up right there in full! 😦 😡
Just figured out that. How do we control that? I made no changes yet, suddenly my posts seem to be hidden.. Do you want to try saving the setting just one more time – as a test?
The website you mentioned seems to be linking the posts to your sites. I just checked the last few pages and clicked randomly on blogs and it took me to the actual site.
Looking forward to pics of the cake. Please!!!
Only for some of us, PB. Yesterday, my whole post opened up in their site. Today, it seems to be just a link, If you check Deeps’, older posts, you’ll see that it all opens up -which is totally not done. Check this out -http://haaram.com/CompleteArticle.aspx?aid=516682&ln=en. The only post that does not come up is the one she reblogged from mine.
If you click the title it takes you to original blog page. Click ‘read more’ and the page opens there itself, for most blog pages.
The link is there, clicked and landed back here, so it seems, for now, only the link is being shared, but it’s a good idea to keep checking.
YeS, IHM, for now, it seems only the link is being shared for mine. For others it is the whole post.. We’ll have to keep checking and will have to try and figure out how to handle this..
Mine is there too. So what is to be done?? Totally confused
Not sure as of now, Bhagyashree. Will keep you posted if we get some solution..
Eeks I just checked! I have not blogged from sometime, so am not sure if mine comes up too! Phew, but there are so many blogs up there that i know! Hmmm
I think you are not there. I searched for you and Pixie – both of you seem to have escaped 🙂
LOL 😛
It has my blog tooo and I have written to them , emailed them .. they have done nothing .. have not checked off late ..
and you did not check mine 😦
So sorry:( how did I miss you:( sorry, sorry, sorry! Is your whole post there or just a link?
🙂 seeeeeeeee you forgot me I knew itttttttttt…
last when i checked it was the whole post , but i had emailed them to remove me .. I will give it a quick search and see if i am still there or not
Let me know if it works.
Bikram, could not find you there! Do you think they took you off? Can you check and let us know, please?
Hmmm my latest post is there with a link…..guess with 2-3 posts coming up here they have decided to remove the full article thing…I don’t really know what to do…u guys decided and let me know how to protest against them ok?
Chalo good u at least baked…I too baked an upside down pineapple cake (eggless & with aata) and though the top didn’t look as good as I wud have wanted it but it tasted good (I didn’t taste it 😦 coz of my diet). And yes I am game for the baking challenge but I wud be doing it eggless, ok? Vaise am planning to bake oat & raisin cookies today, lets see whether I get time!
Will let you know, Smita. Reg an eggkess cake, I have a great recipe, and super easy too. Will mail all you guys. We can then decide if we want to or not.
Smita, your full article is there when you click ‘read more’. Can you try changing your feed setting to ‘None’ or ‘Excerpt’ and see if it comes up? Mine was already set to excerpt, but the whole post still came up. Suddenly, it seems to have reversed, no idea how.
Weird thing to happen. Somebody creating a whole website based on other’s blogs and that too without asking etc!
Glad that you baked as the lil one liked it too! Happy baking some more goodies!! 🙂
Shilpa, Just notcied that you are there too 😦
My blog posts were definitely not there in the morning… I had scanned the entire website. Looks like they are adding/updating their website!! 😐
I did not see it earlier, but I did not search for you either. I noticed it just now.
I could spot your blog too, Shilpa! Just go to the ‘other authors’ and you’ll find your name there and yes, the posts are opening up in full! This is getting absurd!
I’m feeling hungry 😦 Wail ! 😥
Come over, I’ll bake a fresh cake for you:)
Some travel might be coming up by Dec-Jan. Will keep you posted 🙂
OMG I’m there. There’s a site ending in ‘.in’ rather than ‘.com’. Confusing, it sure is.
You baked after a long time, isn’t it? Pictures, next time, please. I’m considering getting an OTG soon. I’m just not able to bake well in the microwave. Will bug you for recipes then.
I did 🙂 I didn’t get a chance ti take pics. Next time for sure:)
I have an OTG and a micro, and cakes and bread seem to turn out well in both- so far.
I definitely learned a lot from our Facebook discussion. Hope the issue can be solved so we are forearmed if any other website tries this same trick!
Same here, Roshni. I was clueless, would have never known… I just hope we are able to figure out something.
thx for alerting all of us Smitha though at this point am not sure what can be done.. I see the link to my latest post on the right side..
good that you have got back to baking.. happy baking.. 🙂
Ani, They have a contact form. Go there and send them a message to take you off.
I have often seen pings on my blog from other sites. Visiting them, I would see part of my posts, with a link back to my blog. I never thought of doing anything about it. This is the first time I am hearing of entire posts from a number of blogs being copied on a site. I wonder what they achieve by doing that?
The orange-chocolate cake sounds awesome! I would love to try it out. Recipe pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee. And, yes, the major point is that Poohi loved it. 🙂 That’s what really matters, in spite of all the chaos that happened. 🙂