Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Thanks, Doc. The reason I ask is because we produce THOUSANDS of pages of original content for clients. I was looking at competing pages and it looks like those pages are getting socked while the original content stuff are still alive. It used to be that competing pages (which used duplicated, scraped, or spun content) would be listed as supplemental but the listing # (total results # not listed entries) would be very high. This seems to have completely changed now. I would not have noticed if I didn't look at the competing stuff. I noticed this last week. This might or might not explain the recent surge in SERPs across differing categories.