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shovelware

 noun
     
shov‧el‧ware [uncountable]
information that first appears in printed form, for example in a book or newspaper, and then is put onto the Internet or CD-ROM without any new or interesting ways to look at or use the information:
Many of the educational software titles are nothing but shovelware.
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