I think this is the last item from the Friday Google+ Google hangout that I have to write about, this one is on duplicate content, copied content from one site to another, which we covered a lot here. But here, John Mueller said that sometimes, Google may rank content that is duplicate, copied from one site, in their rankings and not canonical that version and only show one of the URLs.
The fear with duplicate content or copied content is that if someone steals your content, Google may rank the stolen content and hide your content in their search results. John Mueller from Google said this is not always the case.
At the 32:48 mark into the video, John answered this question:
He said Google may, in some cases, “index them separately” and rank them separately. Here is his full answer, because it is not always the case that they do:
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