GitCode is a code hosting platform developed by CSDN. In order to quickly obtain search engine traffic, CSDN directly imports a large amount of content to fill it in the usual way, and the next step should be to use SEO farms to pollute search engines to gain traffic.
Many developers have noticed that their projects have been imported by GitCode, and CSDN has other tricks, such as batch replacing the project addresses mentioned in existing articles on CSDN's site from Github to GitCode.
Existing articles on CSDN have a high weight in Baidu and Google searches. By this method, GitCode's weight can be quickly increased, leading users to GitCode, while achieving weight increase and traffic surge.
Therefore, it is estimated that there may be a large amount of content from GitCode in Baidu, Google, and Microsoft Bing searches, considering CSDN's strength. For CSDN, it should be a simple matter to gain traffic through polluting search engines.
In the current situation, the original developers of the projects have no way to deal with it because the projects created by GitCode and the homepages created for developers are actually automated. These accounts and projects are not controlled by developers, so even if CSDN tampered with the projects, developers cannot modify them.
CSDN even noticed that some projects' readme files contain Github addresses, so they also batch replaced these addresses with GitCode. In the future, users who search for these projects may not even see the real project address on Github.
Gitee, owned by Open Source China, currently has a certain market share in the field of open source code hosting in China. The tactics used by CSDN to seize market share are truly despicable. However, considering CSDN's past practices such as marking original content when importing, now with GitCode, it seems not surprising.
CSDN's code hosting platform GitCode has been found to clone/mirror most of the publicly available code repositories on GitHub. It even cloned the star ratings of each code repository - a mechanism on GitHub for following and bookmarking. Most code repositories use open source licenses that allow free cloning or mirroring, so this action by CSDN is not illegal, but considered lacking in ethics.
Joke: GitCode indiscriminately cloned and imported scientific Internet tools and politically sensitive repositories back to China. As a result, the country's firewall is not to be trifled with and directly blocked gitcode.com.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793185