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Hi Sorina, Thanks for the response. That makes sense as the content isn't completely duplicate.

Old post but for anyone that feels that waiting for Google to penalize someone will take too long or not work... here's an example of a major competitor of ours getting hit on the last: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/therichest.org It took about a year and a bit. We even offered $XX,XXX to purchase their sites, and after discovering their techniques, just waited it out to see their huge decline.

This is correct.