How does required duplicate content (terms and conditions, etc.) affect search?

Today's question comes from New York.

Jason asks, how does duplicate content that is legally required?

For example, terms and conditions across multiple offers affect performance in search.

There was a follow up comment to that where someone said, particularly for people in the financial services industry or Pharma, we want to know the answer to this.

The answer is I wouldn't stress about this unless the contentthat you have that's duplicated is spammy or keyword stuffingor something like that.

Then we might be an algorithm or a person might take actionon it.

But if it's legal boilerplate, that is sort of required to be there, we might at most not want to count that, but it'sprobably not going to cause you a big issue.

We do understand that lots of different places across theweb do need to have various disclaimers legal information,terms and conditions, that sort of stuff.

And so it's the sort of thing where if we were to not rankthat stuff, well, then that would probably hurt our overall search quality.

So I wouldn't stress out about that.

You.