Why are text articles on the web so thin? [duplicate]

1. What is the reason Google does not like duplicate content on a website?
2. What causes duplicate content?
3. What is the most common fix for duplicate content?

What is the reason Google does not like duplicate content on a website?

Search engines like Google have a problem – it's called 'duplicate content'. Duplicate content means that similar content appears at multiple locations (URLs) on the web, and as a result search engines don't know which URL to show in the search results.

What causes duplicate content?

This occurs when each user that visits a website is assigned a different session ID that is stored in the URL. Printer-friendly versions of content can also cause duplicate content issues when multiple versions of the pages get indexed.

What is the most common fix for duplicate content?

What is the most common fix for duplicate content? In many cases, the best way to fix duplicate content is implementing 301 redirects from the non-preferred versions of URLs to the preferred versions.