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 in the usual way for filling. The next step should be to use SEO farms to pollute search engines and gain traffic.
Many developers have noticed that their projects have been imported by GitCode, and CSDN has other tricks, such as batch replacing 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 and achieving weight increase and traffic surge.
Therefore, it is estimated that a large amount of content imported from GitCode may appear in search engines such as Baidu, Google, and Microsoft Bing. Considering CSDN's strength, it should be quite simple for CSDN to gain traffic through polluting search engines.
In the current situation, the original developers of the projects have no way to intervene 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 readme files of projects 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, it seems unsurprising that GitCode is following a similar path.
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 CSDN's actions are not illegal, but are considered lacking in ethics.
Here's a joke: GitCode indiscriminately cloned and imported all scientific tools and politically sensitive repositories back to China. However, the country's firewall is not to be underestimated, as it directly blocked gitcode.com.