If you write for the web, whether that be on a blog or any other content site, there is a good chance your content has been scraped at some point, if not on a continuous basis. The good news is that it's probably not that big of a deal. At least that is what Google's Matt Cutts imples.
Answering user questions as he so often does, Cutts took on the question, "Is there a way to benefit from content scraped from your site?"
If you're a blogger who has been at it for a while, you've probably run across other blogs stealing your content at one point or another. These are commonly referred to as scrapers, and will often use your content to post Google AdSense ads and make money off your work.
At the beginning of this month, we had reported that, Google had blocked the widely used search engine rank checking tool 'WebPosition Gold'.