Third party site hosting vbox docs... good? bad? indifferent?

[Fernando Cassia]

I was surprised when I googled for "export snapshots as ovf
virtualbox" and have this site as the 3rd result:
http://en.helpdoc-online.com/virtualbox_4.1.2/source/ch01s13.html

Here's the actual search query I used
https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=export+snapshots+as+ovf+virtualbox&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&gfe_rd=cr&ei=UKCGU5-QEKbX8ge3t4HYBw

I did so while attempting to point a user on Twitter towards some
helpful document describing the process, not to be constrained by the
140chars limit.

Obviously, it's someone copying documentation from popular open source
projects, and placing it on their own hosting/domain with advert
banners at the top.

Interesting money making approach. Dunno how ethical (given that the
user who lands there doesn't seem to be informed that it's a third
party site, and the official up to date docs are somewhere else), but
I guess (for GPL or FDL license) it's still legal.

So the point is... what can we do to have virtualbox.org results on
the top 5 (or more) results and this opportunistic site relegated much
lower?
Perhaps having the virtualbox.org docs linked from third party blogs? Tweets?

Should we even bother, or is this just a nuisance?

Regards,
FC

[Charles Stroom]

Ignore and install Adblock Plus on Firefox. I don't see any ad on
this page.

regards, Charles



On Thu, 29 May 2014 00:01:01 -0300

Post by Fernando Cassia
I was surprised when I googled for "export snapshots as ovf
http://en.helpdoc-online.com/virtualbox_4.1.2/source/ch01s13.html

[jdd]

Post by Charles Stroom
Ignore and install Adblock Plus on Firefox. I don't see any ad on
this page.

I *want* to see the adds, to be able to boycott them

jdd